When trying to emerge php-4.3.9 it fails during the configure stage with a cross-compiling error. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge '<=php-4.99' Actual Results: root@spartacus [root]# emerge '<=mod_php-4.99' > emerge.log configure: error: can not run test program while cross compiling !!! ERROR: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.9 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 449, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Expected Results: Installed php. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.4.3-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apache apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cluster crypt cups curl doc encode esd f77 fam foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib innodb jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype vim x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Same thing happens with php-4.3.8. Is this possibly a bad setting somewhere? Or bad portage?
*** Bug 72862 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This appears to have been some conflict with libwww and mysql? Upon further searching of the bug DB, I have found bug #23751 which appears to have been the same problem from almost a year ago. I'm not sure why, but re-emerging libwww made mod_php and php both emerge fine. Can someone help explain why this works?
Jep idd. Re-emerging libwww was the solution. I don't know why, although... Greetz
PHP isn't know for useful error messages. the config.log file usually gives the exact problem more directly. The source of the libwww problem is that your libraries were inconsistant for some reason, usually an binary-incompatible ABI upgrade of a library without recompiling all other libraries that linked against it (revdep-rebuild usually manages to do this 100% fine for you if you run it).
