[Sussex] php build in gentoo

[Dominic]

Hi,

This is proving quite tricky for me...
I wanted to install php on my gentoo box.
I did an emerge -p php and it showed me a list of dependancies as long as
your arm.

I decided to build each one one at a time.  This was working fine untill I
tried to install ttmkfdir (a font scaling thing).

It has a dependancy on freetype (1.3.1).  Gentoo has just emerged freetype2!

So I got the source for both freetype 1.3.1 and ttmkfdir manually, and built
then myself.  Great, it worked.

But....  With my complete lack of experience with C and makefiles and gentoo
( :) ) I don't really know what I have got, where I should put it and how to
tell emerge that I have done it ( the last bit I guess is emerge inject, but
I don't want to do this until I know what to do with the 2 builds I just
created).

This is all good experience, but.... where do I put these things and how do
I get emerge to know they're there and utilise them for the rest of the
build processes?

Cheers,
Dominic