Re: [PHP-DB] Building PHP with Oracle support

[Christopher Jones <christopher.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow - I suddenly realize It's been a long time since I compiled
the obsolete "oracle" extension.  We've done so much with the newer
"oci8" one recently.

I had a similar problem with PDO_OCI recently that turned out to
be a linking problem.

Chris

Andrew Bergman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to compile PHP 5.2.0 on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 AS 64 bit 
> with Oracle support.  (not oci8).
> The configure line I have used is:
> ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs 
> --with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf 
> --with-oracle=/export/oracle/pegasus/product/9.2.0 --with-ldap=/usr 
> --enable-sigchild --enable-libgcc
>
> It compiles ok without error, however however when I view phpinfo I have 
> no Oracle section.
>
> If I compile with --with-oci8=/export/oracle/pegasus/product/9.2.0 that 
> compiles and shows OCI8 in the phpinfo however we aren't using oci8 for 
> our application making that useless.
>
> I am not sure if it is an issue whereby it is compiled but no oracle 
> support ended up compiling for whatever reason or a runtime issue where 
> it is compiled with oracle support but is not finding something it needs 
> when it runs in order for Oracle support to work.
>
> Anyone able to help?


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