With gentoo I have noticed one thing.. the devs break ebuilds alot. :) When i doubt always... source /etc/profile env-updated emerge rsync then try to reemerge whatever was the problem. Also, irc.freenode.net #gentoo and #gentoo-sparc (sparc contains the peole with real clue however..) On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Bryce C wrote: > Yes, I want PHP. I've written PHP scripts for the last 4 years. > Yes, the symlink is right. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Feb 8 09:00 linux -> > linux-2.4.19-gentoo-r10/ > Linux NOTAREALHOST 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 #3 Sat Feb 8 11:33:09 MST 2003 i686 > AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > And ld.so.conf is correct. I'm going to try upgrading my kernel to > 2.4.20 and see if that fixes it. > > Also, apache isn't installed on this machine. > > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 16:12, BoBB wrote: > > Are you sure you want php? or do you want mod_php. mod_php is for apache > > and php is just a shell interpreter. Fork is a utility that lets you > > create child process's, from reading the man page it looks like its > > included in some header that configure cant find. Do you have > > /usr/src/linux symlinked to the kernel your actually using? The man page > > mentions the sys/types.h and unist.h headers. Perhaps your ld.so.conf > > got messed up? Try fixing it and running ld.so.conf > > > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:24:15PM -0700, Bryce C wrote: > > > I'm trying to run an emerge world but it gets hung up on compiling PHP. > > > I've never had the problem before and I'm running the most recent gcc > > > and associated ebuilds. Can someone help? > > > Here are the last few lines: > > > > > > 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 econf, Line 262, Exitcode 1 > > > !!! econf failed > > > > > > Thanks, > > > -- > > > Bryce C > > > CoBryce Communications > -- > Bryce C > CoBryce Communications >