Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 13:41 -0700, jeff stern wrote: > >>Greg Knaddison wrote: >> >>>Maybe I'm missing something here, but this makes complete sense to me >>>as it was laid out. >>> >>>RPM (and therefore yum) don't have any idea about software installed >>>outside of their world, so they don't know of any packages that >>>provide libgds.so. They do know what the requirements of an RPM >>>package are, so when you ask what php-interbase package requires it >>>can tell you exactly what it requires. >> >>but this is exactly the problem. the .spec file never said that the >>php-interbase sub-package *requires* libgds.so.. but it generated it >>anyway as a 'requires'.. so apparently, rpm's automatic >>dependency-checking *does* check things that are not in rpms..? > > > A better question is why is php-interbase requiring libgds.so when it's > provided with libgds.so.0? Does the interbase-devel package have a file > for libgds.so instead of a link? thanks, ignacio.. i think you are right: yours *is* a better question, since it gets to the heart of the matter. well, all i can tell you is that in the earlier (7.1) version of the interbase/linux drivers from borland, those drivers were packaged into an .rpm, and the rpm installed /usr/lib/libgds.so.0 and then sym-linked /usr/lib/libgds.so.0 to that and re-ran ldconfig in the post-install script. php-interbase would *build* with this library installed from rpm, but would not *install* (at least, not without a --nodeps). in the more recent version (7.5) of the interbase/linux drivers, borland apparently gave up on trying to make rpms, and instead packaged them as a tarball with an install-script. in this case, the library is put in /opt/interbase/lib/libgds.so , and there is no ~.so.0 version or symlink). if you want this libgds.so library to be seen by any other programs on the box, then you have to give ld.so.conf this new location and re-run ldconfig. nevertheless, with the newer version too, rpmbuild/configure/gcc can find the library in order to *build* php-interbase, but -- as with the earlier/7.1/rpm'd version of the ib/linux libraries -- it cannot find the library to *install* php-interbase.
