The following reply was made to PR pkg/33121; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: adrianp@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/33121: pear-DB no longer packages
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:06:06 -0800

 Unfortunately, the modified patch-al did not do the trick, because php
 does not install bin/pear from that pear.sh file.  It installs it from a
 tar file included with the php source distribution.
 
 I think it pointed me in the right direction.  The following patch
 resolves the problem for me:
 
 Index: pear.mk
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/lang/php/pear.mk,v
 retrieving revision 1.8
 diff -u -r1.8 pear.mk
 --- pear.mk     28 Sep 2005 21:46:24 -0000      1.8
 +++ pear.mk     22 Mar 2006 22:03:08 -0000
 @@ -50,7 +50,9 @@
         @cd ${WRKSRC} && ${LN} -s ${WRKDIR}/package.xml package.xml
  
  do-install:
 -       cd ${WRKSRC} && ${PEAR_CMD} "install" package.xml || exit 1
 +       cd ${WRKSRC} && \
 +               PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN="${PREFIX}/bin/php -n -dmemory_limit=16M" \
 +               ${PEAR_CMD} "install" package.xml || exit 1
  
  .include "../../lang/php/phpversion.mk"
  .include "${PHPPKGSRCDIR}/buildlink3.mk"
 
 
 Cheers,
 
 Ben