Windows builds are perfect i do agree!! as for th linux builds DEBIAN or
UBUNTU seem to be fine using the packages available but when it comes to
doing it from source it begins to be a train smash. Its been like this for
at least almost two years i still never got it to work on Mandrake 9 i think
people should post steps on how they got it to work on there various linux
builds thats a starting point i think.

On 3/4/06, Lester Caine <lester@...> wrote:
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> Darren Thompson wrote:
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> > there are issuses with firebird 1.5 and php on linux all i can say is
> > goodluck i wouldnt waste my time on trying to get it work i use debian
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> > is a package that is already made that one can use dont know if there is
> one
> > for fedora.
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> Since I did not have any real problems with SUSE10 I thought that things
> were a lot better.
> Based on these comments I think we *DO* need to sort out our own
> PHP/Firebird builds :(
> The main problem *I* had was just making sure that the right development
> tools were loaded, and then things ran fine.
> CAN we do a ready built .so library, and distribute that, or do we need
> to simply sort out the problems on each distribution?
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> Of cause getting Firebird simply included like MySQL and Posgres would
> be the ideal so perhaps we need a concerted effort on that. The WINDOWS
> builds have never been a problem since the binary is always included!
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