ImageMagick and PHP 5.4

When building the PHP imagick module for ImageMagick on a server running PHP 5.4 (a cPanel/WHM box in this case), you receive the following error:

/root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c: In function ‘zim_imagick_setfont’:
/root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c:1442: error: ‘struct _php_core_globals’ has no member named ‘safe_mode’
/root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c:1442: error: ‘CHECKUID_CHECK_FILE_AND_DIR’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c:1442: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c:1442: error: for each function it appears in.)
/root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c:1442: error: ‘CHECKUID_NO_ERRORS’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c: In function ‘zim_imagick_setimageprogressmonitor’:
/root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c:9534: error: ‘struct _php_core_globals’ has no member named ‘safe_mode’
/root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c:9534: error: ‘CHECKUID_CHECK_FILE_AND_DIR’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/root/tmp/pear/imagick/imagick_class.c:9534: error: ‘CHECKUID_NO_ERRORS’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [imagick_class.lo] Error 1
ERROR: `make’ failed

The solution is to install the beta version of the module instead:

pear config-set preferred_state beta
pecl install imagick