could someone point to the ebuild which provides phpize binary? It's mainly used to compile packages with php pecl.
I'm on a Gentoo up-to-date machine, so I'm also on PHP5.5.
There is a generic way to find out which package provides a certain binary.
emerge app-portage/pfl
Installs a program called e-file, which allows you to
host ~ # e-file phpize
* dev-lang/php
/usr/bin/phpize is created by the eselect php module. Try eselect php to get help.
/usr/bin/phpize
was a broken symlink to real phpize binary path provided by PHP.