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wildgoosed

21st August 2007 00:34

Problems building php5

hey everyone.

i'm currently trying to re-install php5 from source on a fedora core 4 box (yes i know old). reason i am doing this from source is that i need mssql support which isn't included in the rpm i had used before.

i read that i needed to install freetds, so i downloaded the src and did the following commands...

./configure
make
make install

everything went fine with that install.

i didn't want to break any other packages that need php5 and that were currently using my rpm build of php5, so i used the configuation commands from the phpsysinfo output + the --with-mssql=/usr/src/freetds on my source install.

when i attempt to ./configure the php5 source, i get the following error...

Code:

checking for MSSQL support via FreeTDS... yes

configure: error: Could not find /usr/src/freetds/lib/libtds.a|so

[root@localhost php-5.2.3]# find / -name freetds
/usr/src/freetds

any ideas? thanks.

falko

21st August 2007 17:47

I think --with-mssql=/usr/src/freetds is wrong (that the source directory, but you have already compiled and installed freetds). You must find out where freetds is installed (maybe /usr/lib or just /usr or something like that).

wildgoosed

21st August 2007 21:13

I used the --prefix and was able to install freetds where i wanted to, but now i'm getting a new error when trying to compile php5...

My freetds dir is /usr/local/freetds
My php5 source is /usr/local/src/php5

Code:

configure: error: ODBC header file '/usr/include/sqlext.h' not found

wildgoosed

21st August 2007 23:32

Well I broke apache this afternoon and it took me about an hour to get it back up and running :/

What I'm wanting is php to have support for mssql and mysql. Can't I download modules for this? Why do I have to re-compile php5 ?

falko

22nd August 2007 18:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by wildgoosed

Code:

configure: error: ODBC header file '/usr/include/sqlext.h' not found

Is ODBC installed? I think you need to install the dev version of ODBC as well. Do you see something like that in the output of

Code:

yum search odbc

wildgoosed

23rd August 2007 18:26

I get a tone of results for that search. Any idea what ODBC rpm I need installed? php-odbc ?

wildgoosed

23rd August 2007 18:38

If this helps, heres all the modules I have installed...

Code:

[root@localhost src]# rpm -qa | grep php-

php-devel-5.0.4-10.5

php-mysql-5.0.4-10.5

php-odbc-5.0.4-10.5

php-imap-5.0.4-10.5

php-5.0.4-10.5

php-ldap-5.0.4-10.5

php-gd-5.0.4-10.5

php-xml-5.0.4-10.5

php-xmlrpc-5.0.4-10.5

php-pear-5.0.4-10.5

So it looks like I should be able to connect to mysql databases as I have the module installed, but isn't there a php-mssql module?

wildgoosed

23rd August 2007 19:11

I got php-mssql module install via yum.

I was able to get a sample script running that connects to my mssql server. However I'm getting the following error that leads me to believe that the php-mssql module on my system still requires further configuring...

Code:

Call to undefined function mssql_connect()

falko

24th August 2007 22:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by wildgoosed

Code:

Call to undefined function mssql_connect()

Please check if the module is enabled in php.ini. If you have to modify php.ini, don't forget to restart Apache.

wildgoosed

29th August 2007 17:33

I was finally able to get the rpms going for php5, freetds and php_mssql.

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