I just think that maybe in Ebuild the keyword is ~amd64 what the ebuild
maintainer** do , it means that the maintainer just tested  in arch amd64
not x86. if you want to install in x86,you can modify ebuild and add
~x86，maybe it works ,that is my opinion.

On 31 July 2010 10:29, Michael M <thecryof@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello list, I need to install Cairo bindings for dev-lang/php-5*.  Is there
> a pecl-cairo overlay for ~x86?  I've tried unmasking this package and adding
> the keyword ~amd64 and it seems to want to install with emerge but my system
> is ~x86.
>
> According to this site it is only ~amd64, but I cannot understand why.
> http://gpo.zugaina.org/dev-php5/pecl-cairo
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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