RE: [PHP4BETA] Openlink/PHP4 problems

Brian, Try using the --with-openlink option, to ensure that it's not just a corrupt iodbc tarball. The componets on our www.openlinksw.com site, e.g. drivers and SDK should give you all the pieces you need. Regards, Andrew ---------------------------------------------------- Andrew Hill Technical Support Consultant OpenLink Software http://www.openlinksw.com Universal Database Connectivity Technology Providers > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Leyton [mailto:bleyton@cpe-usalco.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 4:58 PM > To: Php4beta; ahill@openlinksw.com > Subject: [PHP4BETA] Openlink/PHP4 problems > > > I'm trying to build Apache/PHP4/Openlink. Here are the vital statistics - > IBM RS6000, AIX 4.2.1 PowerPC, PHP4 CVS version, Apache 1.3.11. > > I have Openlink set up and talking to my database via odbctest. I have > compiled PHP4 using --with-openlink (adding --with-iodbc=/path/to/iodbc > doesn't seem to make any difference). The LIBPATH environment variable is > pointing to /usr/local/openlink/lib. When I compile Apache, I get the > following error message: > > ./gen_test_char >test_char.h > Could not load program ./gen_test_char > /usr/local/openlink/lib/libiodbc.a is not executable or not in > correct XCOFF > format > Could not load library libiodbc.a > Error was: Exec format error > make: The error code from the last command is 255. > > Now this looks like the libiodbc.a file has some problems (BTW, > the file is > indeed there, and seems to have the proper permissions). So I changed > LIBPATH to point to /usr/local/lib, where I have the version of libiodbc.a > that I compiled from the libiodbc-2.50.3 package. I can get then > get Apache > to compile properly, but then I get core dumps in Apache when trying to > access the database from a PHP script. > > I suspect that the iodbc that I compiled is the problem here, since I get > coredumps in odbctest when using the version of this program from the > libiodbc-2.50.3 directory. In fact, a comparison of the backtraces from > Apache & odbctest looks very similar to my (untrained) eye. > > So I guess this boils down to a couple of questions, which now seem kinda > off-topic (sorry): > > 1. Is the problem with compiling Apache against the Openlink version of > libiodbc.a easily solved? If so, then maybe that's the easiest > way to solve > this. I'm sure it's possible that I downloaded the wrong version of the > client components, though I believe I did get the ones for AIX > 4.2 Power PC. > > 2. Am I doing something wrong when installing iODBC-2.50.3 that's causing > the coredumps? All I did there was unpack the tarball, run ./configure, > ./make, ./make install. Not much to screw up - is there? > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated, > > Brian > > > -- > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net > >