I've install my client libraries in /compat/linux/usr/lib/oracle/9.0.1/client and set the environment variables as below
setenv ORACLE_BASE /compat/linux/usr/lib/oracle/9.0.1/client setenv ORACLE_HOME /compat/linux/usr/lib/oracle/9.0.1/client setenv TNS_ADMIN /compat/linux/usr/lib/oracle/9.0.1/client/network/admin I'm using the php from the port in /usr/port/lang/php4 but I'm building it myself from the work directory the standard configure line but with the added oci8 option as this is not includeding the php4-extensions port. ./configure --enable-versioning --enable-memory-limit --with-layout=GNU --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/etc/php --disable-all --with-regex=php --with-apxs=/usr/local/sbin/apxs --enable-debug --disable-ipv6 --prefix=/usr/local i386-portbld-freebsd4.10 --with-oci8 when running the configure it works fine displays that its found oracle client checking for Oracle-OCI8 support... yes checking Oracle Install-Dir... /compat/linux/usr/lib/oracle/9.0.1/client checking Oracle version... 9.0 checking for OCIEnvNlsCreate in -lclntsh... (cached) no checking for OCILobIsTemporary in -lclntsh... (cached) no checking for OCILobIsTemporary in -locijdbc8... (cached) no I've copied the include files into ext/oci8 and into main/ like they tell you to but when I try to compile it at the end of the compile it fails with this error cc -shared ext/oci8/oci8.lo regex/regcomp.lo regex/regexec.lo regex/regerror.lo regex/regfree.lo ext/standard/array.lo ext/standard/base64.lo ext/standard/basic_functions.lo ext/standard/browscap.lo ext/standard/crc32.lo ext/standard/crypt.lo ext/standard/cyr_convert.lo ext/standard/datetime.lo ext/standard/dir.lo ext/standard/dl.lo ext/standard/dns.lo ext/standard/exec.lo ext/standard/file.lo ext/standard/filestat.lo ext/standard/flock_compat.lo ext/standard/formatted_print.lo ext/standard/fsock.lo ext/standard/head.lo ext/standard/html.lo ext/standard/image.lo ext/standard/info.lo ext/standard/iptc.lo ext/standard/lcg.lo ext/standard/link.lo ext/standard/mail.lo ext/standard/math.lo ext/standard/md5.lo ext/standard/metaphone.lo ext/standard/microtime.lo ext/standard/pack.lo ext/standard/pageinfo.lo ext/standard/parsedate.lo ext/standard/quot_print.lo ext/standard/rand.lo ext/standard/reg.lo ext/standard/soundex.lo ext/standard/string.lo ext/standard/scanf.lo ext/standard/syslog.lo ext/standard/type.lo ext/standard/uniqid.lo ext/standard/url.lo ext/standard/url_scanner.lo ext/standard/var.lo ext/standard/versioning.lo ext/standard/assert.lo ext/standard/strnatcmp.lo ext/standard/levenshtein.lo ext/standard/incomplete_class.lo ext/standard/url_scanner_ex.lo ext/standard/ftp_fopen_wrapper.lo ext/standard/http_fopen_wrapper.lo ext/standard/php_fopen_wrapper.lo ext/standard/credits.lo ext/standard/css.lo ext/standard/var_unserializer.lo ext/standard/ftok.lo ext/standard/aggregation.lo ext/standard/sha1.lo TSRM/TSRM.lo TSRM/tsrm_strtok_r.lo TSRM/tsrm_virtual_cwd.lo main/main.lo main/snprintf.lo main/spprintf.lo main/php_sprintf.lo main/safe_mode.lo main/fopen_wrappers.lo main/alloca.lo main/php_scandir.lo main/php_ini.lo main/SAPI.lo main/rfc1867.lo main/php_content_types.lo main/strlcpy.lo main/strlcat.lo main/mergesort.lo main/reentrancy.lo main/php_variables.lo main/php_ticks.lo main/streams.lo main/network.lo main/php_open_temporary_file.lo main/php_logos.lo main/output.lo main/memory_streams.lo main/user_streams.lo Zend/zend_language_parser.lo Zend/zend_language_scanner.lo Zend/zend_ini_parser.lo Zend/zend_ini_scanner.lo Zend/zend_alloc.lo Zend/zend_compile.lo Zend/zend_constants.lo Zend/zend_dynamic_array.lo Zend/zend_execute_API.lo Zend/zend_highlight.lo Zend/zend_llist.lo Zend/zend_opcode.lo Zend/zend_operators.lo Zend/zend_ptr_stack.lo Zend/zend_stack.lo Zend/zend_variables.lo Zend/zend.lo Zend/zend_API.lo Zend/zend_extensions.lo Zend/zend_hash.lo Zend/zend_list.lo Zend/zend_indent.lo Zend/zend_builtin_functions.lo Zend/zend_sprintf.lo Zend/zend_ini.lo Zend/zend_qsort.lo Zend/zend_multibyte.lo Zend/zend_execute.lo sapi/apache/sapi_apache.lo sapi/apache/mod_php4.lo sapi/apache/php_apache.lo main/internal_functions.lo -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/compat/linux/usr/lib/oracle/9.0.1/client/lib -L/compat/linux/usr/lib/oracle/9.0.1/client/lib -lcrypt -lcrypt -lm -ldl -lm -lclntsh -lcrypt -lcrypt -Wl,-soname -Wl,libphp4.so -Wl,-retain-symbols-file -Wl,/usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.3.8/sapi/apache/php.sym -o .libs/libphp4.so /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -ldl *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.3.8. However I've tried this method on redhat linux 9 and it works fine. I believe the -ldl that it can't find is something to do with mod_so support for apache but thats all i know. Brian Hood, _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"