Compilation of mod_php fails if MySQL is not installed and not in the USE flags. The error message is "can not run test program while cross compiling". If I install MySQL, mod_php compiles without an error. The mod_php version I'm trying to emerge without MySQL is 4.3.4-r2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -C mysql mod_php 2. USE="-mysql" emerge mod_php Actual Results: Compile failed with "can not run test program while cross compiling" Expected Results: mod_php should have compiled without support for MySQL. Portage 2.0.49-r21 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.23) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.23 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://gentoo.linux.no/ ftp://gentoo.linux.no/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apm avi berkdb bonobo crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tetex truetype x86 xfce xml2 xmms xv zlib"
something you have is linked against mysql. so it needs to be rebuild if mysql was removed on purpose. use revdep-rebuild
