emerge -u php fails. Here is what I see: Configuring extensions checking for ZLIB support... yes checking if the location of ZLIB install directory is defined... yes checking for gzgets in -lz... yes checking whether to enable bc style precision math functions... yes checking for BZip2 support... yes checking for BZip2 in default path... found in /usr checking for BZ2_bzerror in -lbz2... yes checking whether to enable calendar conversion support... yes checking for cpdflib support... no checking for CRACKlib support... no checking whether to enable ctype functions... yes checking for CURL support... no checking for cyrus imap support... no checking for xDBM support... no checking whether to enable DBA... no checking for gdbm_open in -lgdbm... yes checking for GDBM support... yes checking for NDBM support... no checking for Berkeley DB2 support... no checking for db_create in -ldb-3.1... no checking for db_create in -ldb-3... yes checking for db_create in -ldb3... no checking for db_create in -ldb... yes checking for Berkeley DB3 support... yes checking for DBM support... no checking for CDB support... no checking for FlatFile support... no checking whether to enable DBA interface... yes checking whether to enable dbase support... yes checking whether to enable dbx support... no checking whether to enable direct I/O support... no checking for DOM support... yes checking for libxml version... >= 2.4.14 checking for DOM XSLT support... yes checking for DOM EXSLT support... yes checking whether to enable EXIF (metadata from images) support... no checking for FrontBase SQL92 (fbsql) support... no checking for FDF support... no checking whether to enable the bundled filePro support... no checking for FriBidi support... no checking whether to enable FTP support... yes checking for GD support... yes checking for the location of libjpeg... yes checking for the location of libpng... yes checking for the location of libXpm... yes checking for FreeType 1.x support... yes checking for FreeType 2... yes checking for T1lib support... yes checking whether to enable truetype string function in GD... yes checking for fabsf... yes checking for floorf... yes checking for jpeg_read_header in -ljpeg... yes checking for png_write_image in -lpng... yes checking for XpmFreeXpmImage in -lXpm... yes If configure fails try --with-freetype-dir=<DIR> checking for T1_LoadFont in -lt1... yes checking for GNU gettext support... yes checking for bindtextdomain in -lintl... no checking for bindtextdomain in -lc... yes checking for ngettext in -lc... yes checking for dngettext in -lc... yes checking for dcngettext in -lc... yes checking for bind_textdomain_codeset in -lc... yes checking for GNU MP support... no checking for hwapi support... no checking for Hyperwave support... no checking for iconv support... no checking for IMAP support... no checking for Informix support... no checking for Ingres II support... no checking for InterBase support... no checking for IRCG support... no checking for Java support... yes checking Java Jar location... /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/bin/jar cf checking Java C location... /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/bin/javac checking Checking for libjava... /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/jre/lib/i386 checking for LDAP support... yes checking for 3 arg ldap_set_rebind_proc... no checking for ldap_parse_reference... no checking for ldap_start_tls_s... no checking whether to enable multibyte string support... no checking whether to enable multibyte regex support... no checking for MCAL support... no checking for mcrypt support... no checking for MCVE support... no checking for mhash support... yes checking whether to enable mime_magic support... no checking for MING support... no checking for mnoGoSearch support... no checking for msession support... no checking for mSQL support... no checking for MSSQL support via FreeTDS... no checking for MySQL support... yes checking for specified location of the MySQL UNIX socket... yes checking for MySQL UNIX socket location... no checking size of char... 0 checking size of int... (cached) 4 checking size of long... (cached) 4 checking size of long long... 0 checking for size_t... (cached) yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... (cached) yes checking for type ulong... no checking for type uchar... no checking for type uint... no checking for type ushort... no checking for int8... no checking base type of last arg to accept... socklen_t checking return type of qsort... void checking for mysql_close in -lmysqlclient... yes checking for ncurses support... no checking for Oracle-OCI8 support... no checking for Adabas support... no checking for SAP DB support... no checking for Solid support... no checking for IBM DB2 support... no checking for Empress support... no checking for Empress local access support... no checking for Birdstep support... no checking for a custom ODBC support... no checking for iODBC support... no checking for Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge support... no checking for unixODBC support... no checking for OpenLink ODBC support... no checking for DBMaker support... no checking for Oracle-ORACLE support... no checking whether to enable user-space object overloading support... yes checking for Ovrimos SQL Server support... no checking whether to enable pcntl support... yes checking for fork... no configure: error: pcntl: fork() not supported by this platform !!! ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 183, Exitcode 1 !!! bad ./configure Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -u php 2. 3.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15816 ***