On Saturday 12 February 2005 00:08, Lester Caine wrote:

> Ian Wilson wrote:
> > So...as it seems it is finding the libraries but doesn't like them I
> > don't know what to do from here?(Do I need special libraries for the
> > opteron?)
>
> Leave off interbase and you will have the same problem :(
> This is currently being discussed on the PHP internals list (or has
> been) and is to do with the fact that PHP needs to find the 64bit
> libraries - the 32bit are incompatible ;)
>
> From that list
>
> > However, after downloading the php5-200502052330.tar.gz snapshot, things
> > seem broken again. My ./configure starts out like this:
> >
> > ../configure --with-libdir=lib64 --prefix=/usr/local/php
> > --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs
>
> As of the 10th this has yet to be fixed, but seems more to do with the
> build tools themselves still not having been fully converted to 64bit
> rather than PHP (or Firebird).
>
> I'm running Firebird on the AMD64 box, and leaving Apache/PHP on the
> original W2k server, which has improved response times somewhat, but
> like you I'd like to be able to get PHP running there as well. I think
> its still "Watch this space".

Thank you. It is funny how hard it is for things to change. Too bad I only
have one server and can't seperate what works and what doesn't like you have
done.

Do you think there is some way to use some generic/ODBC driver or such to
connect to firebird rather than the php ib_* functions? Or basically any
other option?

I am pretty much stuck in php for now.

Thanks.

-Ian