PHP emerge

leo · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 5:37 pm Post subject: PHP emerge

I have the following problem emerging PHP: the compilation stops and shows this error message

[...]
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

what's the problem?

Thank you

Leo

tanee · n00b Joined: 30 May 2002 Posts: 19 Location: Germany

same ebuild, different error:

tanee · n00b Joined: 30 May 2002 Posts: 19 Location: Germany

since fork() is used to create threads in programs (not quite sure - correct me, if i'm wrong) it could be possible that your problem is linked with this:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29283

leo · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 6:46 pm Post subject:

The fork() syscall is used to create processes (and not threads) and its code is part of the kernel; it does surely work (I tested it with a small C program). I do not understand what's the meaning of "not supported by this platform"...
Perhas the fork() call is that of PHP (I do not know if there is one in it)?

Leo

Berkz · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 11:25 pm Post subject: exact same error

I get the exact same error.
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Berkz · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 11:30 pm Post subject: solution

solution here
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36518&highlight=fork
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flybynite · l33t Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 620

Read

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15816#c10

for more info about the fork problem. (not a fork problem but really a configure problem)