Re: building php with DB extension without installing DB locally

From:	Thijs Lensselink	Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:45:10 +0000
Subject:	Re: building php with DB extension without installing DB locally
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Quoting Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com>:

dev@lenss.nl schreef:
Quoting Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com>:
hi guys, I want to build php with firebirdDB (ibase) extension (for the purposes of this exercise it could just as well be mysql) without installing firebird on the local machine (i'm moving the DB to a seperate server) ... I can't figure out how to do this apart from installing firebird, building php then removing firebird again - although I'm not sure this would even work. Does anyone know the correct way to go about such a thing? TIA
Think it's the same as compiling with the mysql extension. You need the client libraries to build PHP. So just install the firebird client and compile against that. That should work .. right?
right! I wasn't thinking - it never occurred to me I could install the client libs without the [db] server a quick look with 'apt-cache search' comfirms that I can. thanks for the wake up call :-)

np :)