Install of devel/pear hangs

[Colin Baker]

Hello,

Been having some trouble installing devel/pear on a server after migrating  
PHP packages from php5-* to php53-*.  Regardless of whether I use  
portmaster or 'make install', it hangs at the same spot:

# make install
===>  Installing for pear-1.9.4_1
===>   pear-1.9.4_1 depends on file: /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h -  
found
===>   pear-1.9.4_1 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20090626/xml.so -  
found
===>   Generating temporary packing list
===>  Checking if devel/pear already installed

where it will happily sit for days if I don't intervene.  Is there any way  
to see what it's trying to do at this stage?  Or is this something anybody  
else has run into?

-Colin