On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 16:47 +0000, Gareth Hastings wrote: > > Did the package you tried to re-emerge actually use any of the USE > flags > > you changed? The most common use for --newuse is emerge --newuse > > (--update) world, to re-emerge all packages that use the new flags. > > Yes it did or at least I'm sure it should! Is there anyway to find out? > > I was re-emerging PHP and mod_php with the use flag mssql. > > I checked afterwards with > > # equery uses php > > [ Searching for packages matching php... ] > [ Colour Code : set unset ] > [ Legend : Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ] > [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ] > [ Found these USE variables for dev-php/php-4.3.10 ] > U I > + + mssql : Adds support for Microsoft SQL Server database > > The mssql bit shows up red. > > But if I do a phpinfo(); it shows me the configure statement had > '--without-mssql' in it. > > So maybe php is unaffected by the use flag mssql? > > > > > > If you're just changing the flags for one package, you might as well > > just change the flags (either in /etc/make.conf or in > > /etc/portage/package.use) and just re-emerge the package normally. > > > > Holly > > > > Thanks > > Gareth > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > >
Or maybe you need to manually enable mssql in the php config. -- Ivan Yosifov. -- [email protected] mailing list
