thanks Richard. I added unicode to USE, re-emerged PHP and Apache, then was
able to emerge PHPMyAdmin and MediaWiki.

On 9/8/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/8/06, Shawn Singh <callmeshawn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  I was trying to install PHP and a couple other packages when I got the
> > following error:
> >
> >   * Checking for required PHP feature(s) ...
> >   *   Discovered missing USE flag: unicode
> >   *
> >   * dev-lang/php-5.1.4-r6 needs to be re-installed with all of the
> following
> >   * USE flags enabled:
> >   *
> >   * pcre session unicode
> >   *
> >   * as well as any of the following USE flags enabled:
> >   *
> >   * mysql or mysqli if using dev-lang/php-5
> >   * mysql if using dev-lang/php-4
> >   *
> [snip]
> >  I checked /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and see that unicode is
> listed,
> > and the other flags
> >  ( pcre session mysql and mysqli ), what's causing this?
>
> Well use.desc is just a description of USE flags, not the flags that
> you actually have turned on.  You should read:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2
>
> But basically what you need to do is either:
>
> - update /etc/make.conf to add unicode to USE
>
> - add "dev-lang/php unicode" to /etc/portage/package.use
>
> I actuall recommend the first, as unicode seems to be one of those
> things that should be enabled globally.
>
> If you have further trouble with this, post the outputs of "emerge
> --info" and "emerge -pv dev-lang/php".
>
> -Richard
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>
>


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