installation help, then a more technical serious question

I'm aware that this beta list is probably more for seasoned testers than PHP3 newcomers, but I'm running across an installation difficulty that I didn't have with PHP3.... I'm running a PIII-450 with 128MB of RAM, RedHat Linux 6.0 (Hedwig?), Gnome interface. I got straight tarballs of APache 1.3.6 and Beta 2 of PHP4. I'm compiling PHP4 as an apache module straight in, not dynamically loaded, and I'm requesting Oracle support for Oracle Enterprise Server 8.0.5, also on this LInux box with an Oracle home of /usr/local/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5 I successfully configure, make, and make install within the PHP4 source, and sure enough, a php4 directory is created underneath the /usr/local/src/apache_1.3.6/modules directory, as it should. The problems begin when I go back and try to compile apache. running a ./configure within the apache source presents the following error: " Creating Makefile Creating Configuration.apaci in src /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lsqlnet: No such file or directory collect2: Id returned 1 exit status make: *** [dummy] Error 1 [snip] A test compilation with your makefile failed. " I checked usr/bin and there is an "ld" file in there. Any ideas? Secondly, here's the technical question for PHP4: With the session manager, I'm interested to know whether or not, when a user connects to an oracle database, whether or not the process that is spawned for that connection is persistent throughout the user's connection. Meaning, I want to ensure that each user "owns" a particular process, so that it can't be interrupted by other simultaneous users accessing the database also. Cheers, Brian Brian R. Aust Lead Database Programmer Health Decisions, Inc. 1512 East Franklin St, Suite 200 Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Tel: 919.967.2399 x247 Fax: 919.967.1145