Re: recompiling php

Jochem Maas wrote:

blackwater dev wrote:

I am trying to recompile php 5 with freetds so am using this :

which specific version? try another [pristine] src tarball.

./configure '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs' '--with-mysql=/root/mysql-standard-4.1.9-pc-linux-gnu-i686' '--with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds'

you found freetds there I take it? (I saw your previous related post)

Things seem ok so I do make and at the end of make I get this error: /usr/bin/ld:ext/mssql/php_mssql.lo: file format not recognized; treating as linker script /usr/bin/ld:ext/mssql/php_mssql.lo:2: syntax error collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [libphp5.la] Error 1 I then did make install and of course got the same error: /usr/bin/ld:ext/mssql/php_mssql.lo: file format not recognized; treating as linker script /usr/bin/ld:ext/mssql/php_mssql.lo:2: syntax error collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [libphp5.la] Error 1 I then do make clean. Of course, it doesn't seem to regenerate the libphp5.so so once I restart apache, and check out phpinfo, it shows the old

'make clean' doesn't install anything. it's the 'make install' that would install the .so if the error didn't occur. no?

'make clean' undoes all of the compiling, so you have to do at least 'make' again (maybe configure too, can't remember off hand). You won't be able to install this module because it didn't finish compiling properly. As for the problem.. This suggests (found through google by searching for the error message :P): http://www.phparch.com/discuss/index.php/m/8536/062674b9ac3b46fc71fa818bdc36dc04/ using --with-mssql=/usr/local instead of --with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/