pecl and memory limit error

If you run “pecl install [something]” and get this error: “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate xxx bytes)”, you want to change “/usr/bin/pecl” (or run “locate pecl” to see where it is) and specify a larger memory limit.

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/php -C -n -q -d include_path=/usr/share/pear \
    -d output_buffering=1 /usr/share/pear/peclcmd.php "$@"

becomes

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/php -C -n -q -d include_path=/usr/share/pear \
    -d memory_limit=16M -d output_buffering=1 /usr/share/pear/peclcmd.php "$@"