Bug #5418 Updated: Bug in detection of dbm causes conflict with Sybase dbopen()

ID: 5418 Updated by: kalowsky Reported By: dean.bennett@home.com Old-Status: Analyzed Status: Feedback Bug Type: Sybase (dblib) related Operating system: PHP Version: 4.0.1pl2 Assigned To: Comments: attempted at a patch, sent to user. awaiting a response. Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-07-28 11:24:36] waldschrott@php.net checking out --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-07-27 23:59:19] dean.bennett@home.com Yes it is. The fix would be to change the order of the AC_CHECK_LIB's in ext/db/config.m4. I think that the order should be gdbm, c, dbm, db. As someone else reported, there is also no way to disable linking against dbm. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-07-27 22:13:15] waldschrott@php.net Please verify that it´s still happening using the latest version from CVS or snaps.php.net. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-07-06 22:31:28] dean.bennett@home.com The configure script checks for dbm by linking a conftest.c program with a dbm_open call against -lgdbm, then -ldb, then -lc and finally -ldbm. On Digital Unix, the link succeeds against -ldb, because there is a /usr/lib/libdb.a, but dbm_open is really in libc (and also in libdbm.a) and not in libdb. This causes a problem when you try to build --with-sybase, as the sybase dbopen() function is superceeded by the dbopen() in libdb.a. The -ldb is before -lsybdb in the link command. Configure should not be picking -ldb as the DBM_LIB value, as that is not the location of dbm_open. If I install gdbm, it works fine, as it checks for that library first. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION! Do NOT reply to this email! To reply, use the web interface found at http://bugs.php.net/?id=5418&edit=2