Composer fails to finish

[parkervcp]

while running composer setup

composer setup
> composer install --ansi --no-dev

Error

> Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postUpdate
> php artisan optimize
PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '->' (T_OBJECT_OPERATOR) in /var/lib/nginx/html/app/Console/Commands/RunTasks.php on line 70


  [Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException]
  syntax error, unexpected '->' (T_OBJECT_OPERATOR)


Script php artisan optimize handling the post-update-cmd event returned with error code 255
Script composer install --ansi --no-dev handling the setup event returned with error code 255

On Alpine Linux 3.4

php -v
PHP 5.6.26 (cli) (built: Sep 23 2016 14:47:01)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies

[parkervcp]

Confirmed on CentOS with 5.6.26

> Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postUpdate
> php artisan optimize
PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '->' (T_OBJECT_OPERATOR) in /var/www/html/app/Console/Commands/RunTasks.php on line 70


  [Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException]
  syntax error, unexpected '->' (T_OBJECT_OPERATOR)


Script php artisan optimize handling the post-update-cmd event returned with error code 255
Script composer install --ansi --no-dev handling the setup event returned with error code 255

[root@22ea4694a553 html]# uname -a
Linux 22ea4694a553 4.7.3-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 7 13:19:00 EDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@22ea4694a553 html]# cat /etc/r
rc.d/           rc0.d/          rc2.d/          rc4.d/          rc6.d/          resolv.conf     rpm/
rc.local        rc1.d/          rc3.d/          rc5.d/          redhat-release  rpc             rsyslog.d/
[root@22ea4694a553 html]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)

[schrej]

This can be fixed by removing the unnecessary brackets around Carbon::now() in the file mentioned in the error output (this worked for me yesterday at least).

Just change line 70 in app/Console/Commands/RunTasks.php from

$tasks = Models\Task::where('queued', 0)->where('active', 1)->where('next_run', '<=', (Carbon::now())->toAtomString())->get();

to

$tasks = Models\Task::where('queued', 0)->where('active', 1)->where('next_run', '<=', Carbon::now()->toAtomString())->get();