-TERMUX_PKG_FOLDERNAME=php-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}
-TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-glob, libxml2, liblzma, openssl, pcre, libcrypt, libmcrypt, libcurl, libgd, readline"
-# http://php.net/manual/en/libxml.installation.php
-# "If configure cannot find xml2-config in the directory specified by --with-libxml-dir,
-# then it'll continue on and check the default locations."
+# Build the native php without xml support as we only need phar:
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_HOSTBUILD_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--disable-libxml --disable-dom --disable-simplexml --disable-xml --disable-xmlreader --disable-xmlwriter --without-pear"
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-glob, libxml2, liblzma, openssl, pcre, libbz2, libcrypt, libcurl, libgd, readline, freetype"
+
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" ac_cv_func_res_nsearch=no"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" --mandir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/share/man"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" --with-bz2=$TERMUX_PREFIX"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" --with-curl=$TERMUX_PREFIX"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" --with-freetype-dir=$TERMUX_PREFIX"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" --with-gd=$TERMUX_PREFIX"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" --with-iconv=$TERMUX_PREFIX"