I had not upgraded my Arch server in a few weeks: ncurses has indeed changed to version 6 as of early September, but PHP should have been upgraded with it.
The quick-n-dirty fix is: pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ncurses-5.9-7-i686.pkg.tar.xz
You can install PHP via pacman. There'a a number of pieces that I've found necessary, including php, php-apache, php-gd, php-sqlite. If you're compiling PHP from source to stay at a particular version, I'm not sure that's a good idea as PHP gets patched a lot. It would be hard to keep up with the security patches compiling everything yourself.
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2 years ago
After doing a system upgrade, whenever trying to use php it complains:
Sure, it's because I now have libncursesw.so.6
Any workaround?