FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

Because FreeTDS installs to a nonstandard location the dynamic linker 
can't find the libraries without

a) LD_LIBRARY_PATH being set
b) ld.so.conf having the path added to it
c) FreeTDS being configure with --prefix=[/usr,/usr/local]

I'm actually going to remove installation of the interfaces file for 0.53, 
that'll clear the way for package managers to install in /usr/local 
without any extra cruft.

Brian

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Eric Liedtke wrote:

> I just wanted to drop a note out in case anyone else has a similiar
> problem. I installed unixODBC and FreeTDS per the sites, same with apache,
> php4 etc. I could connect to my M$SQL7 server and do queries with isql,
> however this didn't work with php. I usually just got garbage in the
> results. This is what I did to fix it...
> 
>    putenv("ODBCINI=/usr/local/etc/odbc.ini");
>    putenv("ODBCINSTINI=/usr/local/etc/odbcinst.ini");
>    putenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/freetds/lib");
> 
> at the begining of the php script. Specifically the LD_LIBRARY_PATH did
> it. Without it I get garbage. I have no idea why and would be curious if
> there is any other solution, but regardless I just thought I'd point this
> out. This actually came out of the example script in the iODBC php howto
> page on iodbc.org.
> Just and fyi
> Eric Liedtke
> 
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