Bug 18082 – emerge php failed with following error - configure: error: pcntl: fork() not supported by this platform

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• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Robert Pajak 2003-03-24 04:35:03 UTC]

checking for Ovrimos SQL Server support... no
checking whether to enable pcntl support... yes
Howdy!

I tried to compile cacti which wanted php. While configureing php it failed with
 alert shown below...


checking for fork... no
configure: error: pcntl: fork() not supported by this platform

!!! ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.1 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 273, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed

I tried to do sync/rsync every day to see if there are new packages but there is
still a problem...

shrine net-analyzer # emerge -p php

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N   ] dev-php/php-4.3.1  

More funny is fact that if i explicitly untar archive with php and run configure
by hand it works!!!



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge php
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
configure failed...

Expected Results:  
It should install php :) and afterward I could install cacti

[Comment 1 Seth Chandler 2003-03-25 04:27:53 UTC]

not a keychain bug

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-03-25 18:46:30 UTC]

*** Bug 18140 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-03-25 18:46:48 UTC]

*** Bug 18089 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Robert Szentmihalyi 2003-03-29 14:31:46 UTC]

This bug is related to blackdown-jdk-1.3.1
Installing sun-j2sdk-1.4.1 (has to be done manually since the ebuild is currently masked) fixes the problem.

[Comment 5 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-04-07 15:39:39 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15816 ***