Unable to install PEAR

[Garrett Cooper]

On Nov 28, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Roger Merritt wrote:

> I was getting errors trying to portupgrade PEAR, so I did a  
> pkg_deinstall and then ran portinstall. The following is the last  
> part of what I get:
>
>> warning: pear/PEAR requires package "pear/Archive_Tar" (version >=  
>> 1.3.1)
>> warning: pear/PEAR requires package "pear/Console_Getopt" (version  
>> >= 1.2)
>> pear/PEAR can optionally use package "pear/ 
>> PEAR_Frontend_Web" (version >= 0.5.0)
>> pear/PEAR can optionally use package "pear/ 
>> PEAR_Frontend_Gtk" (version >= 0.4.0)
>> pear/PEAR can optionally use package "pear/ 
>> PEAR_Frontend_Gtk2" (version >= 0.1.0)
>> install ok: channel://pear.php.net/PEAR-1.4.11
>> install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Archive_Tar-1.3.1
>> install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Console_Getopt-1.2
>> install ok: channel://pear.php.net/XML_RPC-1.5.0
>> *** Signal 11
>>
>> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pear.
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pear.
>> ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/ 
>> portinstall.66956.0 env make reinstall
>> ** Fix the installation problem and try again.
>> ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
>>         ! devel/pear    (install error)
>> --->  Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
>
> I've looked through UPDATING and don't find anything suggestive.  
> Any ideas? Or should this be sent either to the ports mailing list  
> or to the maintainer?
>
> -- 
> Roger

That's an interesting error... memory problems or a programming  
error, perhaps?

 From signals(7):

SIGSEGV	    11	     Core    Invalid memory reference

I'd test your memory and CPU, and maybe consider contacting the  
maintainer about this if they both appear to be fine..
-Garrett