The biggest problems with the php emerge scripts are things like the hardcoded 
QTDIR environment variable.  I have QT3 on my system and have USE="kde qt -java 
-gnome" set, but the php emerge exports /usr/lib/qt/2, not /usr/lib/qt/3 (and 
overwrites the variable even if I set it).  I'd fix it myself and submit the 
patch back to them, but from looking at the emerge files, they don't appear to 
be sh or bash scripts.

> With gentoo I have noticed one thing.. 
> 
> the devs break ebuilds alot. :)
> 
> When i doubt always...
> 
> source /etc/profile
> env-updated
> emerge rsync
> 
> then try to reemerge whatever was the problem.
> 
> Also, irc.freenode.net  #gentoo and #gentoo-sparc (sparc contains the 
> peole with real clue however..)
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Bryce C wrote:
> 
> 
>>Yes, I want PHP. I've written PHP scripts for the last 4 years.
>>Yes, the symlink is right.
>>lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           24 Feb  8 09:00 linux ->
>>linux-2.4.19-gentoo-r10/
>>Linux NOTAREALHOST 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 #3 Sat Feb 8 11:33:09 MST 2003 i686
>>AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
>>
>>And ld.so.conf is correct.  I'm going to try upgrading my kernel to
>>2.4.20 and see if that fixes it.
>>
>>Also, apache isn't installed on this machine.
>>
>>On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 16:12, BoBB wrote:
>>
>>>Are you sure you want php? or do you want mod_php. mod_php is for apache
>>>and php is just a shell interpreter. Fork is a utility that lets you
>>>create child process's, from reading the man page it looks like its
>>>included in some header that configure cant find. Do you have
>>>/usr/src/linux symlinked to the kernel your actually using? The man page
>>>mentions the sys/types.h and unist.h headers. Perhaps your ld.so.conf
>>>got messed up? Try fixing it and running ld.so.conf
>>>
>>>On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:24:15PM -0700, Bryce C wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm trying to run an emerge world but it gets hung up on compiling PHP.
>>>>I've never had the problem before and I'm running the most recent gcc
>>>>and associated ebuilds.  Can someone help?
>>>>Here are the last few lines:
>>>>
>>>>checking whether to enable pcntl support... yes
>>>>checking for fork... no
>>>>configure: error: pcntl: fork() not supported by this platform
>>>>
>>>>!!! ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.1 failed.
>>>>!!! Function econf, Line 262, Exitcode 1
>>>>!!! econf failed
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>-- 
>>>>Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
>>>>CoBryce Communications
>>
>>-- 
>>Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
>>CoBryce Communications
>>
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