I think it works fine now, it's really great, it pulls in all the dependencies, downloads, builds...
The only thing, is I still got stuck on this php thing, and it's not an OE problem I think, however since this got it start it I thought I'd ask it here, to maybe find a solution.
bitbake php goes into the penultimate step and configures php and then$ tail config.log
checking whether libxml build works...
checking for XMLRPC-EPI support... yes
checking libexpat dir for XMLRPC-EPI... no
checking iconv dir for XMLRPC-EPI... no
checking for iconv... no
checking for libiconv... no
checking for libiconv in -liconv... no
checking for iconv in -liconv... no
configure: error: iconv not found, in order to build xmlrpc you need the iconv library
FATAL: oe_runconf failed
Yet there is iconv in /usr/bin
I even went and downloaded and built GNU libiconv and it's in /usr/local/bin/ yet I still get this failure.
I've googled and found a couple of references to icon not found even when installed which is exactly this prob but all the pages are dead, and I wasn't able to find a solution. What is it?
Hack the php configure script?