Installation of php 7.x fails

[dg1]

While trying to install PHP 7.x, installer fails. Does not apply to 7.0/7.1, these install with no issues.

Error:

checking pcre install prefix... no
checking libzip... yes
checking for the location of zlib... /usr
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for libzip... not found
configure: error: Please reinstall the libzip distribution
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart httpd.service

Any ideas why?

[dg1]

An obvious fix didn't work.

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yum install libzip

Just resulted in another error:

checking libzip... yes
checking for the location of zlib... /usr
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for libzip... configure: error: system libzip must be upgraded to version >= 0.11
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.

[studio4host]

php 7.x is developer version latest from git so you probably don't need that and you should stick to production versions.

[dg1]

PHP 7.1 installs 7.1.7

How to get 7.1.9 then if 7.x fails?

Also, if 7.x is for advanced users or experimental, it should be marked as such. Right?