I've been running mysql-4.1.x for a while now, unmasked. It works fine, but this isn't a bug about mysql. The php5-sapi-r2 eclass depends on mysql-4.0* for reasons I haven't been able to ascertain. Simply changing the dep from mysql-4.0* to mysql or even mysql-4* would let mysql-4.1.x users build PHP without major headaches like I've been having. Extra-trivial patch to demonstrate what I mean: 67c67 < mysql? ( =dev-db/mysql-4.0* ) --- > mysql? ( dev-db/mysql ) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95632 ***