Install of devel/pear hangs

[Adam Strohl]

On 6/12/2012 19:18, Colin Baker wrote:
> 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?

Try using truss (ie; "truss make install")

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Adam Strohl
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