[gentoo-user] How to handle Firebird with PHP now

[Matthias Hanft <mh@hanft.de>]

Hi,

I have many Firebird databases on my Gentoo server.

To compile PHP with Firebird support, I have the line

-firebird

in /etc/portage/profile/use.mask because the Firebird USE flag
of PHP was masked somewhen.

This worked without problems as long as Firebird (3.0) was in
the portage tree.

Now Firebird was completely removed from the portage tree.
So I installed Firebird (5.0) from its own homepage which
works without problems, too. I put the line

dev-db/firebird-5.0.1.1469

into /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. Not sure if this
was necessary, but apparently it doesn't harm...

...maybe except one point: Since then, revdep-rebuild always
reinstalls PHP (although it doesn't show any orphaned files).

The other/old revdep-rebuild.sh says, however,
"Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done."

I'd like to get the normal revdep-rebuild saying "everything
ok", too. So what's the correct way to deal with a manually
installed Firebird server while keeping the Firebird support
in PHP and not interfering with revdep-rebuild?

Thanks,

-Matt