During an update world (emerge -uDav world) the upgrade from dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.2 to dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.3 failed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -av "=dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.3" Actual Results: The emerge fails with the following error: >>> md5 files ;-) PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.3.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.0.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.0 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.3 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) XML_RPC-1.4.3.tgz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking XML_RPC-1.4.3.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.3/work tar: A lone zero block at 256 >>> Source unpacked. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.3 >>> Install PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.3 into /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.3/image/ category dev-php /usr/portage/eclass/php-pear-r1.eclass: line 47: pear: command not found !!! ERROR: dev-php/PEAR-XML_RPC-1.4.3 failed. !!! Function php-pear-r1_src_install, Line 47, Exitcode 127 !!! Unable to install PEAR package !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Expected Results: emerged successfully. meirelles rodrigo # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.11-win4lin i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-win4lin i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m3dnow -mmmx -msse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -m3dnow -mmmx -msse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distcc distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" LANG="pt_BR" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage-fabrica" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib alsa apm arts audiofile avi bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dga dts dvd edl eds emboss encode faac faad fam fame ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint gmp gpm gstreamer gtk2 imagemagick imlib jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww live lzo mad matroska md5sum mikmod mjpeg mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline real ruby samba scanner sdl speex spell ssl svg svga tcpd tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xinerama xml2 xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
The non existence of the pear command shows you have probably a broken dev-php/PEAR-PEAR install, since it seems you're using dev-lang/php for PHP, please make sure to emerge dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r1, also PEAR-XML_RPC was now upgraded to 1.4.4, please emerge sync, reinstall PEAR-PEAR and try again updating PEAR-XML_RPC, thanks. Best regards, CHTEKK.