Please, provide a way for the debugclient to be compiled. For instance I have to do the following to have the debugclient: $ emerge libedit $ ebuild /usr/portage/dev-php5/xdebug/xdebug-2.0.0_rc1.ebuild unpack $ cd /var/tmp/portage/xdebug-2.0.0_rc1/work/xdebug-2.0.0RC1/debugclient/ $ chmod u+x configure $ ./configure --with-libedit $ make $ make install I propose to have a USE flag "client" or "noclient" that will enable or disable the compilation depending on what should be the default action.
Fixed in CVS.