Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

CHTEKK found a patch in upstream’s CVS tree for the PDO drivers segfaulting, so we now have an overlay where you can choose between the PDO support bundled with PHP, or the PDO drivers available through PECL. I’ve also changed it so that each extension gets its own .ini file now; we no longer patch the main php.ini file. This should make administration easier for anyone who uses the pecl packages, at the cost of a few extra inodes under /etc. It also means that you’ll avoid the nasty segfault which happens if you load a PDO driver before the PDO extension itself.

We’re hoping to add an ebuild for Zend Optimizer tomorrow, as well as automatic creation of /usr/bin/php as a symlink to the files under /usr/lib/php[45].

We think we’re very close to the point where we’ll add these packages into the Portage tree.