Hi Rick, FreeTDS is still a fast moving target and so is PHP in some areas. Getting pre-compiled RPM's would often force you to run older versions. Compiling from source enables you to keep up to date with the latest features and bug-fixes. If you are running this on multiple computers it's not a big task to copy all files from one test/development box to a number of other systems, as long as the configurations are the same. - Frank > Knowing that I'm not the only one to want to connect to Microsoft SQL > Server on Windows from PHP and Apache on Linux, I'm seeking advice. > > I set up a proof-of-concept application, using Gentoo Linux (with which > I'm most familiar) as my base. Being a compile-from-source distribution > with a lot of packages available, I simply had to set the "mssql" USE > flag and emerge freetds and php. Voila; connectivity. > > Not surprisingly, now that my organization has decided to go with PHP > on Linux, management wants to use a commercially supported distribution > (Red Hat or Novell/SUSE). I was surprised to discover that I couldn't > find RPMs for freetds, nor could I find php-mssql RPMs, and the php > RPMs available in the yum repositories weren't compiled with > --with-mssql. > > Is my only recourse to build freetds and php from source? I'm certainly > capable of doing it, but I won't be the server administrator and I > think it defeats what management wants to accomplish with a > commercially supported distro (package management with easy updates). > > Is anybody in a similar environment that has an easy solution, or can > anybody offer advice? > > Thanks in advance, > Rick > -- > Rick Emery > > "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth > with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there > you will always long to return" > -- Leonardo Da Vinci > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
