build - build a PECL PHP extension package

Introduction

This command builds an installed PECL extension. It accepts as its arguments a list of installed php extension packages to build. It performs an automatic version of:

phpize --clean
phpize
./configure
make
make install
   

In the source directory of the package. It also will prompt the user if any <configureoption> tags exist in package.xml (see the documentation for <configureoption> here)