Just now I've tried to build dev-php/pecl-dbase and find, that it requires dev-land/php:5.3, although description contains messages about fixing bugs, ralated to build with php:5.4. Overriding profile's setting PHP_TARGETS /etc/portage/make.conf: PHP_TARGETS="php5-4" made package fail for start compiling because of unsatisfied dependencies. Forceing usage of correct version of php (setting USE_PHP variable in ebuild, see https://418353.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=349966 ) satisfied dependencies, ebuild successfully compiled with my current php-5.4.13, at least phpinfo() showed required extension (dbase). But I don't find it being a good solution, I expect it to be expanded from PHP_TARGETS value in system's make.conf. $ einfo Portage 2.1.11.62 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.8.13-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.8.13-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_II_X2_250_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 1794940 total, 32216 free KiB Swap: 8000364 total, 7689720 free Timestamp of tree: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo x-local ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/env.d /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask --verbose --autounmask=n" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildsyspkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks downgrade-backup ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ http://ftp.corbina.net/pub/Linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.corbina.net/pub/Linux/gentoo/" LANG="ru_RU.utf8" LC_ALL="" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage/gentoo" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.mydomain.ru/gentoo-portage/" USE="X a52 ac3 acl alsa amd64 avi berkdb bold bzip2 cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus djvu dri dvd flac fortran gdbm gif gtk iconv inotify jpeg jpeg2k lock mmx modules mp3 mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl ogg openmp pam pcre pdf png policykit qt3support readline session sse sse2 ssl tcpd thunar tiff udev unicode utf8 vorbis xcb xulrunner zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="ru ru_RU" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-4" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
I do not really understand what is the bug here. If dbase require php 5.3 and you have set your system to only compile packages against php 5.4, then of course dbase won't be installed.
(In reply to Ole Markus With from comment #1) > I do not really understand what is the bug here. > Excuse me, it was my mistake. Please give few days to explore why it happened.
(In reply to Ole Markus With from comment #1) > I do not really understand what is the bug here. > > If dbase require php 5.3 and you have set your system to only compile > packages against php 5.4, then of course dbase won't be installed. Great thanks for patience! I've seen upstream's requirements for six pecl packages (from gentoo tree), without USE_PHP variable in ebuild (so, Gentoo fources usage profile settings, php-5.3). No one of them has up limit of compatibility (i.e., according upstream should be compatible with all newer versions, now: 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5). So, I expect portage if ebuild contains no value of USE_PHP variable, not to force usage of profile's default, but try to build pecl-package with version, defined in PHP_TARGETS use_expand. Changing usage policy of USE_PHP variable in ebuild from extending profile's default as it done now; to limitation compatibility list (for example, some version(s?) of pecl-dbase had an issue with building against php-5.4; for those versions ebuilds should contains limitations, excluding incompatible braches, i.e. USE+PHP="php5-3"). Also I see useful to point in ebuild down compatibility limit. For example: pecl-lzf http://pecl.php.net/package/lzf requires PHP Version: PHP 4.0.0 or newer pecl-yaz http://pecl.php.net/package/yaz requires PHP Version: PHP 4.3 or newer pecl-ncurses http://pecl.php.net/package/ncurses requires PHP Version: PHP 5 or newer pecl-stomp http://pecl.php.net/package/stomp requires PHP Version: PHP 5.2.2 or newer pecl-rrd http://pecl.php.net/package/rrd requires PHP Version: PHP 5.3.2 or newer Note: no upversion compatibility limit.
Sorry, but dep variables and such are cached, so what you are asking for is not possible. If PHP 5.4 support should be added to a package, add a bug about that.
