Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

I’ve updated my tarball to match revision 82 of our subversion repository. Apart from fixing all the bugs that have been reported to us, notable changes include:

• fastbuild USE flag, which is reported to reduce compile times by 40% plus
• automatic install of the PHP eselect modules, which are used to automatically create the /usr/bin/php (et al) symlinks by popular demand
• latest app-doc/php-docs package, with a manual that was up to date this morning
• PDO support for PHP 5, as promised
• even more pecl extensions, including dev-php4/pecl-* packages for features shipped with PHP 5

I just have the config files for Apache 1 to fix, and then I think we’re ready to add some of the packages to the Portage tree. We won’t be adding every package; some will continue to be available only in the overlay.

As always, a big thanks to CHTEKK and Wendall911 for their testing, patches, and general hard work on both the overlay and in #gentoo-apache. If everything goes according to plan, hopefully you’ll be able to read their blogs on Planet Gentoo before too long too