Bug 82841 – php-5.0.3 drops pear when libxml isn't installed

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2005-02-21 10:04:16 UTC]

I merged php-5.0.3 without libxml being installed (version 1 not 2).  The merge went through fine, no complaints, but /usr/bin/pear was missing.

Next I emerged libxml then php.  This time it complained left and right about my USE flags, which I proceeded to fix up in /etc/portage/package.use.  When I had them right, the merge went through fine.

This seems like a trap for the unwary...  Merging php without libxml on the system results in pure brokenness.

[Comment 1 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2005-02-21 10:08:54 UTC]

i.e. there is an environmental dependency in php that isn't called out in the ebuild, so you can get different things depending on the system where you install php.

[Comment 2 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2005-05-31 15:08:59 UTC]

Hi,

/usr/bin/pear is now supplied by the dev-php/PEAR-PEAR package, instead of the
php packages.

Best regards,
Stu

[Comment 3 Roman Karshiev 2005-06-13 00:02:43 UTC]

> /usr/bin/pear is now supplied by the dev-php/PEAR-PEAR package, instead of the
> php packages.

When I try install PEAR-PEAR, I got error '/usr/portage/eclass/php-pear.eclass: 
line 49: pear: command not found':

# emerge -pv PEAR-PEAR

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.1.0  12 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar-1.3.1  14 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php/PEAR-Console_Getopt-1.2  3 kB
[ebuild  N    ] dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.5  105 kB

Total size of downloads: 136 kB

...

# emerge PEAR-PEAR
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 4) dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.1.0 to /
...
...
10:37:59 (26.50 KB/s) - `XML_RPC-1.1.0.tgz' saved [12,596/12,596]

>>> md5 files   ;-) PEAR-XML_RPC-1.1.0.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) PEAR-XML_RPC-1.2.2.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) ChangeLog
>>> md5 files   ;-) metadata.xml
>>> md5 files   ;-) files/digest-PEAR-XML_RPC-1.1.0
>>> md5 files   ;-) files/digest-PEAR-XML_RPC-1.2.2
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) XML_RPC-1.1.0.tgz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking XML_RPC-1.1.0.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.1.0/work
tar: Нулевой блок в 102
>>> Source unpacked.
>>> Test phase [not enabled]: dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.1.0

>>> Install PEAR-XML_RPC-1.1.0 into /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.1.0/image/ 
category dev-php
/usr/portage/eclass/php-pear.eclass: line 49: pear: command not found

!!! ERROR: dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.1.0 failed.
!!! Function php-pear_src_install, Line 49, Exitcode 127
!!! (no error message)
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-06-29 14:31:33 UTC]

This bug is probably pointless now, the ebuild is not even in portage any
more... Problems with PEAR-PEAR are being dealt with in Bug 95931. 

[Comment 5 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2005-08-25 00:45:30 UTC]

Closing bug.  This package doesn't provide /usr/bin/pear.