I've just got to the chicken/egg situation.Currently, I'm testing my version of funcindex.xml (unserialized refs, sorted, output as new funcindex.xml, configure, build)... If that works, then I'll commit the new funcindex.xml and the code I used to build it.
Personally I do not feel these generated and monolithic files should be in CVS and awhile back wrote a bug report about the situation. Please evaluate it.
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47651 Regards, Philip