Kurt Federspiel wrote:

> I had an issue on SUSE 64-bit where the Firebird client libraries had issues and would not link properly. Install from source fixed that.
>
> Kurt.
>
>

I haven't seen that with CentOS. I installed Firebird from RPM and the
64-bit client libraries installed and worked.

Dan Wilson wrote:

> I did this on 32-bit CentOS with Firebird 1.5 and 2.0. I can't see any
> reason it shouldn't work with 64-bit CentOS, however.
>
> I have a 64-bit CentOS server - I'll try it on there and report back here.
>
>

I finally got a moment to try this. PHP built without any problems.
The only problem I had was when I tried to upgrade my existing php using
the newly-compiled RPM files. rpm reported that I had a missing
dependency (libfbclient.so.2 (64). I found both 32 and 64-bit versions
of the client library where I expected to find them (/usr/lib and
/usr/lib64) so I overrode it using --nodeps on the rpm -U command-line,
and the new packages installed without further complaint. Running
phpinfo() shows that the new php is installed and that it sees the
correct version of the firebird client libraries.

Dan.