please help: PHP with Informix functions

I'm trying to recompile PHP to use the Informix functions. I have a Caldera eServer 2.3 Linux system, which mostly uses rpms. The rpm for mod-php3 doesn't enable the Informix functions, so I got the tarball from the PHP site and tried to recompile it. I'm using Foundation 2000. INFORMIXDIR, INFORMIXSERVER, and /opt/informix/bin in my PATH are available in the environment, as well as LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/informix/lib:/opt/informix/lib/esql . I have ClientSDK installed. When I tried to recompile mod_php3, everything in the compilation seemingly went fine. I verified that my apache httpd.conf file had the correct LaodModule, AddModule, and AddType lines for PHP. But when I tried to restart Apache, I got an error message that said that Apache couldn't load libphp3.so into the server because "/opt/informix/lib/esql/libifos.so: undefined symbol: ifx_checkAPI " Has anyone run into this one before?

Hello, I hope I can help ( although using Linux on a Suse Edition ): I think you have to include the dynamic Informix libraries not by LD_LIBRARY_PATH but by the ldconfig - mechanism : edit the file /etc/ld.so.conf by adding the full path for your Informixlibs $INFORMIXDIR/lib and $INFORMIXDIR/lib/esql and then run the command ldconfig. If it works, be happy Regards Klaus Richard Puchalsky schrieb: > I'm trying to recompile PHP to use the Informix functions. I have a Caldera > eServer 2.3 Linux system, which mostly uses rpms. The rpm for mod-php3 > doesn't enable the Informix functions, so I got the tarball from the PHP > site and tried to recompile it. > > I'm using Foundation 2000. INFORMIXDIR, INFORMIXSERVER, and > /opt/informix/bin in my PATH are available in the environment, as well as > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/informix/lib:/opt/informix/lib/esql . I have Client> SDK installed. > > When I tried to recompile mod_php3, everything in the compilation seemingly > went fine. I verified that my apache httpd.conf file had the correct > LaodModule, AddModule, and AddType lines for PHP. But when I tried to > restart Apache, I got an error message that said that Apache couldn't load > libphp3.so into the server because > "/opt/informix/lib/esql/libifos.so: undefined symbol: ifx_checkAPI " > > Has anyone run into this one before?

"Klaus Mueller" <Klaus.Mueller@ops.de> wrote: > I think you have to include the dynamic Informix libraries not by > LD_LIBRARY_PATH but > by the ldconfig - mechanism : Thanks, but that wasn't it. I tried it; after that I also tried Ix tech support and they told me that the ifx_checkAPI symbol is defined in /opt/informix/lib/esql/checkapi.o . My compilation is finding checkapi.o ; the file is mentioned by name in the libraries section of my Makefile. The compilation seems to work. But when I try to actually run apache using the newly compiled version of mod_php3, it won't run because it thinks that ifx_checkAPI is undefined. Anyone heard of this one? I think that that's as much as I'm going to get from Ix tech support... (it was actually nice that they told me that much since I only have installation support).

In article <krFR4.55172$fV.3406284@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, rpuchalsky@att.net says... > by name in the libraries section of my Makefile. The ...etc ... Of course, Ifx environment incl LD_LIBRARY_PATH is present in env when you start Apache that starts PHP...? -- Yours, Andrej Falout, http://www.falout.com ICQ 7628616 ++64.21.607517 #----------------------------------------------------------------- globals "std_disclaimer.4gl" Ask yourself just one question: ' Qu' m's se puede hacer y aprender ? - Propellerhead ReBirth RB-338 manual

"Andrej Falout" <afalout@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > rpuchalsky@att.net says... > > by name in the libraries section of my Makefile. The > ...etc ... > Of course, Ifx environment incl LD_LIBRARY_PATH is present in env when > you start Apache that starts PHP...? Yes, I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the shell script that starts Apache. Even though I also have compiled the Ix libraries into ld.so.cache.