earlier yesterday morning i emerged dev-db/firebird, the version of firebird is 1.0-r1. i then added a USE="firebird" to my /etc/make.conf and then emerged mod_php and after it was done, restarted apache to reflect the new settings. the php.ini didn't change (its content matched exactly a copy which i made earlyer and checked against with diff), the USE in the ebuild of mod_php states : firebird? ( >=dev-db/firebird-1.0 ) so that seems to be ok, and a little bit further down it uses it. the firebird stuff is installed in /opt/interbase so the following in the ebuild matches ok: use firebird && myconf="${myconf} --with-interbase=/opt/interbase" but then when all the emerging / compiling is done, the php_info shows: ./configure' '--prefix=/usr' '--with-bz2' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-dbase' '--with-zlib=yes' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-trans-sid' '--enable-safe-mode' '--enable-versioning' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs -ltiff' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/lib/apache/bin' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/php4' '--host=i586-pc-linux-gnu' '--without-readline' '--with-pam' '--with-gettext' '--with-openssl' '--with-gdbm=/usr' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-pdflib=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib' '--with-tiff-dir=/usr' '--with-xml' '--with-dom' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-mhash' '--disable-posix-threads but there is no trace of firebird not in the php_info() output nor in the php.ini. seeing as this is my 1st (possible) "bug", i tryed to verify it with some people on irc (#gentoo on freenode.net) with vegai and another person (whose name i cannot mention cuz he just left for bed before i could ask 'm) hope this is ok like this...
did you recompile php ?
yes i did, re-emerged, restarted apache, checked php_info and that cycle about 3x by now all with the same result.
I just recompiled with firebird support... it worked fine here.
