There seem to be some transitive link dependences showing up with the postgresql openldap and other modules. The workaround is to re-emerge, postgresql, openldap etc. The attempt to emerge php-4.3.3-r1 again. And Again. The results section shows this in relation to the xml package, which I will now re-emerge... Sigh. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: libcrypto.so.0.9.6, needed by /usr/lib/libxmlparse.so, may conflict with libcrypto.so.0.9.7 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [sapi/cli/php] Error 1 !!! ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.3-r1 failed. !!! Function php_src_compile, Line 413, Exitcode 2 !!! compile problem emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-vpn-evms) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-vpn-evms i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ distcc 2.11 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -g -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 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="x86 apm crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml alsa slang readline tetex bonobo svga java guile postgres X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt opengl mozilla ldap cdr scanner acpi apache2 evms2 freetds gd gtk2 imap innodb ltsp maildir mbox pcap pic sse usb X509 xine -oss -avi -kde -mmx -gdbm -berkdb -arts -motif"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29412 ***
John: read the postinst message that was printed out after openssl0.9.7 installed, and follow those instructions.