installing and running pear on freeBSD

Does pear need pear.ini on freeBSD? If it does, how do I generate it, seeing as the go_pear script doesn't seem to do it? I was able to use go_pear with a little hand-editing to the generated pear.ini to get pear running (apparently running, anyway) on MSW2k. But I couldn't find any pear.ini after running go_pear on freeBSD. Two more questions -- Is it preferable to keep two separate copies of pear under *NIX, one for the command-line tool and one for mod_php? And, freeBSD tries to install pear for me underneath the php source install. How hard is it likely to be to get it to work that way? A RTFriendlyM would be appreciated if I'm just missing something. -- Joel Rees <joel@alpsgiken.gr.jp>