Bug 188533 – dev-lang/php-5.2.4_pre200708051230-r2 (and probably others) has "magic" dependency on pam

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2007-08-12 02:06:26 UTC]

I recently emerged dev-lang/php-5.2.4_pre200708051230-r2. Since then, I've removed pam from my system (USE=-pam and -uDN world). Today, I unmerged pam since it showed up in the --depclean output. After that, revdep-rebuild showed me something I didn't expect:

[ 46% ]  *   broken /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so (requires libpam.so.0)
[ 78% ]  *   broken /usr/lib/php5/bin/php (requires libpam.so.0)

The ebuild has no pam USE flag nor a dependency on pam.

[Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2007-08-12 02:28:05 UTC]

I just finished rebuilding this version, and it rebuilt fine without pam, so there's no reason for it to be linking against it.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-08-12 04:27:08 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 99696 ***

[Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2007-08-12 04:36:53 UTC]

Uhh, I'm pretty sure this is not a duplicate of bug 99696. I rebuilt *just* php and it was no longer linking against libpam. I didn't have to rebuild any other packages.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-08-12 04:42:26 UTC]

IOW - same thing like when half of your desktop packages break on upgrade to expat-2. This will link against pam as long as its dependencies used to compile optional features (such as net-libs/c-client and/or dev-libs/libmcal w/ PHP4) link against pam. PHP itself doesn't depend on PAM.

If you dislike this, you can try your luck w/ LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" :) 

[Comment 5 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2007-08-12 05:00:52 UTC]

Okay, I concede. I didn't know c-client was a static lib. This makes sense now.

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-03-15 07:31:06 UTC]

*** Bug 213397 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***