note 41756 modified in install.apache by nlopess

Avoid 1.75 days anguish building PHP 4.3.6 on AIX 5.2.0.0 with Oracle 9.2.0.4, the preponderantly relevant part being AIX 5.2: If you get all the way through the object file builds and then the linker craps out with "symbol not defined" errors for all of the oracle call symbols (etx/oracle or ext/oci8), try to do an $ ar -t ${ORACLE_HOME}/lib/libcltnsh.a If this fails silently, do a: $ export OBJECT_MODE=64 and try the "ar" again. If the "ar" displays a bunch of symbols this time, go back to your php top level directory and do a make distclean, configure [args] and a make. It should build fine this time. Note: if your apache was built with the env variable OBJECT_MODE unset or set to a value of 32, you will have to rebuild and reinstall apache with the OBJECT_MODE set to 64 before it will work. If you're getting "bad magic number" errors from apache when it tries to load libphp4.so, this is the problem. --was-- Avoid 1.75 days anguish building PHP 4.3.6 on AIX 5.2.0.0 with Oracle 9.2.0.4, the preponderantly relevant part being AIX 5.2: If you get all the way through the object file builds and then the linker craps out with "symbol not defined" errors for all of the oracle call symbols (etx/oracle or ext/oci8), try to do an $ ar -t ${ORACLE_HOME}/lib/libcltnsh.a If this fails silently, do a: $ export OBJECT_MODE=64 and try the "ar" again. If the "ar" displays a bunch of symbols this time, go back to your php top level directory and do a make distclean, configure [args] and a make. It should build fine this time. Note: if your apache was built with the env variable OBJECT_MODE unset or set to a value of 32, you will have to rebuild and reinstall apache with the OBJECT_MODE set to 64 before it will work. If you're getting "bad magic number" errors from apache when it tries to load libphp4.so, this is the problem. http://php.net/manual/en/install.apache.php