Here is the straight output from emerge: hydra ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~sparc" emerge -v ">PEAR-MDB-1.2" Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-php/PEAR-MDB-1.3.0 to / >>> md5 files ;-) PEAR-MDB-1.2.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) ChangeLog >>> md5 files ;-) PEAR-MDB-1.3.0.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) metadata.xml >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-PEAR-MDB-1.2 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-PEAR-MDB-1.3.0 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) MDB-1.3.0.tgz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking MDB-1.3.0.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-MDB-1.3.0/work tar: A lone zero block at 2670 >>> Source unpacked. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: dev-php/PEAR-MDB-1.3.0 >>> Install PEAR-MDB-1.3.0 into /var/tmp/portage/PEAR-MDB-1.3.0/image/ category dev-php /usr/bin/php: error while loading shared libraries: libhistory.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Troublesome things are that error message from tar, but that php can't find that library. I do have libhistory.so.5 on my system, but haven't yet tested if I can work around this by symlinking libhistory.so.4 to it. Program versions: * dev-php/mod_php Latest version available: 4.3.11 Latest version installed: 4.3.11 Size of downloaded files: 3,941 kB Homepage: http://www.php.net/ Description: Apache module for PHP License: PHP-3 * dev-php/php Latest version available: 4.3.11 Latest version installed: 4.3.11 Size of downloaded files: 3,941 kB Homepage: http://www.php.net/ Description: PHP Shell Interpreter License: PHP-3 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~sparc" emerge -v ">PEAR-MDB-1.2" 2. 3. Actual Results: PEAR-MDB fails to emerge because of an error thrown by /usr/bin/php about not being able to find libhistory.so.4 Expected Results: Correctly emerge PEAR-MDB. hydra ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.4.29-sparc sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.29-sparc sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 30 2005, 05:09:56)] distcc 2.16 sparc-unknown-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.5, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.23 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="sparc X apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dlloader dvdr eds encode esd fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gd gdbm gif gnome gstreamer gtk imap imlib java jpeg jpeg2k kde ldap libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt readline samba sasl sdl snmp spell ssl tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Symlinking libhistory.so.5.0 -> libhistory.so.4 fixes this and allows the emerge to continue, apparently successfully. Bit hackish, though. :( Matt M
You should run revdep-rebuild after upgrading readline - as the ebuild instructed you.
