note 77 deleted from ref.oracle by sander

Suppose your ORACLE_HOME is /opt/oracle/oracle/8.0.3 and you build a version of PHP3 with Oracle support on Solaris like this:<p> <pre> ./configure --with-oracle \ --with-config-file-path=/opt/GNUphp3/lib \ --with-exec-dir=/opt/bin \ --enable-debug=yes \ --enable-safe-mode=no \ --enable-url-fopen-wrapper=yes \ --enable-track-vars=yes \ --prefix=/opt/GNUphp3 </pre> then the resulting PHP binary will be dynamically linked against libclntsh.so in /opt/oracle/oracle/lib. The build process as generated by configure will include this directory with an -L option, but not with an -R option (run-time library search path). This means that the resulting binary will not be able to find libclntsh.so by itself, but depends on an appropriate LD_LIBRARY_PATH set within the web server CGI environment - which usually is not there. To fix this, grab the Makefile generated by configure and duplicate the -L/opt/oracle/oracle/8.0.3/lib option as an -R/opt/oracle/oracle/8.0.3/lib option (your -L and -R strings will look slightly different depending on the values for your oracle version and ORACLE_HOME). The -R option will compile in the corrent search path for libclntsh and you won't have any LD_LIBRARY_PATH pains any more.