>>> Emerging (1 of 4) dev-php/PEAR-XML_Util-1.1.1-r1 to / * XML_Util-1.1.1.tgz size ;-) ... [ ok ] * XML_Util-1.1.1.tgz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * XML_Util-1.1.1.tgz SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * XML_Util-1.1.1.tgz MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking XML_Util-1.1.1.tgz ;-) ... [ ok ] * * Using dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r4 * * Checking for required PHP feature(s) ... >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking XML_Util-1.1.1.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-XML_Util-1.1.1-r1/work tar: A lone zero block at 94 >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-XML_Util-1.1.1-r1/work/XML_Util-1.1.1 ... >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: dev-php/PEAR-XML_Util-1.1.1-r1 >>> Install PEAR-XML_Util-1.1.1-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-XML_Util-1.1.1-r1/image/ category dev-php !!! ERROR: dev-php/PEAR-XML_Util-1.1.1-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_install ebuild.sh, line 1020: Called src_install ebuild.sh, line 1255: Called php-pear-r1_src_install php-pear-r1.eclass, line 66: Called die !!! Unable to install PEAR package !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. Portage 2.1.2_pre1-r4 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1/amd64-vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-suspend2-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-suspend2-r6 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-32 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:00:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.3-r1, 2.0.28-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe -fweb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe -fweb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="ru" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 acpi alsa apache2 audiofile bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt dbus djvu dlloader doc dvd dvdr dvdread dvi elibc_glibc fat ffmpeg firefox flac fuse gcc64 gd gdbm gif glibc-omitfp gnome gpm hal howl imagemagick immqt input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog java java5 jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux libg++ libnotify linguas_ru mad mjpeg mng mp3 mpeg musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses nforce2 nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg opengl pam pcre pdf pdo plotutils pmu png postgres ppds pppd python readline reflection reiserfs session sndfile spell spl sqlite ssl svg symlink tagwriting tcpd theora tidy truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU vcd video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa video_cards_vmware vorbis xfs xine xml xorg xv xvid zip zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Works just fine here. rm -f /etc/pear.conf; emerge -1 PEAR-PEAR and try again.
The problem was in /usr/local/bin/pear and php(that one was without pcre support). Deleted them, made source /etc/profile, re-emerged. Closing this bug :-)