FreeTDS Development Group

["joe brown" <jbrown AT lizardtech.com>]

Thanks!  PHP is installed and working, and talking to M$SQLServer via
Freetds!  Careful typing getting SYBASE and LD_LIBRARY_PATH properly
exported was the key.  Also not setting --prefix to the build dir!  Here's
a super link for anyone installing PHP with FreeTDS:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/44/index4a.html?tw=programming


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "joe brown" <jbrown AT lizardtech.com>
> To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:19 AM
> Subject: [freetds] Re: Apache install failure with Freetds/PHP
> 
> 
> > Hi, Thanks for the reply. How do you "install" libsybdb.so? I ran a find /
> > -name=libsybdb.so and got this:
> >
> > /usr/local/src/freetds-0.51/src/dblib/.libs/libsybdb.so
> >
> > I've set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to this path, and SYBASE to
> > /usr/local/src/freetds-0.51. But libsybdb.so is still invisible to Apache
> > and PHP both.
> 
> 
> That's the thing you're looking for.
> 
> But first a bit of background. "Installing" a library is not really a
> meaningful concept; except insofar as you might put it into /usr/local/lib
> or somewhere like that, but the reason you'd do that is that you'd know that
> at runtime the operating system is going to be able to find it. This is the
> purpose of LD_LIBRARY_PATH: it works just the same as PATH, but instead of a
> colon-separated list of directories containing executables, it's a
> colon-separated list of directories containing shared objects (.so files);
> i.e. dynamic libraries. You can consider it installed, more or less, if the
> directory it's in is listed in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> I presume LD_LIBRARY_PATH had some other value before you set it to
> /usr/local/blah/blah/blah; you don't want to change this beyond appending a
> new directory to the end of it, otherwise you've broken something else.
> Also: I hope you didn't set it to the file itself; this won't get you very
> far.
> 
> If you correct this and it still doesn't work (I had similar problems
> recently with finding oracle libraries while building apache - so you're not
> alone) you could do what I did and create a symlink in /usr/lib or
> /usr/local/lib to the actual file:
> 
> ln -s /usr/local/blah/libsybdb.so /usr/local/lib/libsybdb.so
> 
> which is not a particularly wonderful solution but gets the job done.
> 
> allen
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