ok, I had to patch php-4.0.3pl1 in order to compile php --with-sybase-ct using freetds libs (patch at the end of this report)

the problem is that FreeTDS does not have a couple of files that php looks for when compiling --with-sybase-ct support, those files (if I'm not mistaken) are:

libcs.so
libcomn.so
libintl.so
libtcl.so
libsybtcl.so
libinsck.so

now, I've read the bug report #7595 http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=7595 which is directly related to this issue, in fact the patch I built is strictly based on the patch laszlo talks about on that bug-report. But this one works on 4.0.3pl1 

Basically: freeTDS is useless on php4 unless you patch php, so It's more a php issue than a freetds issue, would be possible for you guys to help in the next releases of php by including something like --with-freetds instead of --with-sybase-ct (or something like it) in a way that it wont look for those missing files?

Well, unless php team incorporates a way to compile freetds support without hacking php we'll just have to patch php from version to version, (which is not bad for me since I already learned how to do it, but for the rest of the guys who are starting with php... well it can be a real pain!)

and here's the patch I've used to succesfully compile freeTDS as --with-sybase-ct (maybe it has some errors, it's my first patch EVER.. go figure :))

diff -u -r php-4.0.3pl1/configure php-4.0.3pl1-patched/configure
--- php-4.0.3pl1/configure	Sun Oct 15 08:47:10 2000
+++ php-4.0.3pl1-patched/configure	Mon Nov 13 21:55:17 2000
@@ -16720,7 +16720,7 @@
   echo $ac_n "(cached) $ac_c" 1>&6
 else
   ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-LIBS="-lintl  $LIBS"
+#LIBS="-lintl  $LIBS"
 cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<EOF
 #line 16726 "configure"
 #include "confdefs.h"
@@ -39336,7 +39336,7 @@
  *)
 
    
-  LIBS="-lcs $LIBS"
+  #LIBS="-lcs $LIBS"
 
 
   ;;
@@ -39360,7 +39360,7 @@
  *)
 
    
-  LIBS="-lcomn $LIBS"
+  #LIBS="-lcomn $LIBS"
 
 
   ;;
@@ -39372,7 +39372,7 @@
  *)
 
    
-  LIBS="-lintl $LIBS"
+  #LIBS="-lintl $LIBS"
 
 
   ;;
@@ -39388,7 +39388,7 @@
   echo $ac_n "(cached) $ac_c" 1>&6
 else
   ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-LIBS="-ltcl  $SYBASE_CT_LIBS  $LIBS"
+#LIBS="-ltcl  $SYBASE_CT_LIBS  $LIBS"
 cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<EOF
 #line 39394 "configure"
 #include "confdefs.h"
@@ -39422,7 +39422,7 @@
  *)
 
    
-  LIBS="-ltcl $LIBS"
+  #LIBS="-ltcl $LIBS"
 
 
   ;;
@@ -39436,7 +39436,7 @@
  *)
 
    
-  LIBS="-lsybtcl $LIBS"
+  #LIBS="-lsybtcl $LIBS"
 
 
   ;;
@@ -39451,7 +39451,7 @@
   echo $ac_n "(cached) $ac_c" 1>&6
 else
   ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-LIBS="-linsck  $LIBS"
+#LIBS="-linsck  $LIBS"
 cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<EOF
 #line 39457 "configure"
 #include "confdefs.h"
@@ -39485,7 +39485,7 @@
  *)
 
    
-  LIBS="-linsck $LIBS"
+  #LIBS="-linsck $LIBS"
 
 
   ;;
@@ -39502,7 +39502,7 @@
   echo $ac_n "(cached) $ac_c" 1>&6
 else
   ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-LIBS="-linsck  $LIBS"
+#LIBS="-linsck  $LIBS"
 cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<EOF
 #line 39508 "configure"
 #include "confdefs.h"
@@ -39536,7 +39536,7 @@
  *)
 
    
-  LIBS="-linsck $LIBS"
+  #LIBS="-linsck $LIBS"
 
 
   ;;
diff -u -r php-4.0.3pl1/ext/sybase_ct/config.m4 php-4.0.3pl1-patched/ext/sybase_ct/config.m4
--- php-4.0.3pl1/ext/sybase_ct/config.m4	Sat Jun 24 06:01:51 2000
+++ php-4.0.3pl1-patched/ext/sybase_ct/config.m4	Mon Nov 13 21:57:19 2000
@@ -20,21 +20,11 @@
     fi
 	AC_ADD_INCLUDE($SYBASE_CT_INCDIR)
 	AC_ADD_LIBPATH($SYBASE_CT_LIBDIR)
-	AC_ADD_LIBRARY(cs)
 	AC_ADD_LIBRARY(ct)
-	AC_ADD_LIBRARY(comn)
-	AC_ADD_LIBRARY(intl)
-	SYBASE_CT_LIBS="-lcs -lct -lcomn -lintl"
+	SYBASE_CT_LIBS="-lct"
     old_LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS
     LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$SYBASE_CT_LIBDIR"
-    AC_CHECK_LIB(tcl, netg_errstr,
-              [ AC_ADD_LIBRARY(tcl) ],
-              [ AC_ADD_LIBRARY(sybtcl) ],
-              [ $SYBASE_CT_LIBS ])
-    AC_CHECK_LIB(insck, insck__getVdate,
-              [ AC_ADD_LIBRARY(insck) ])
-    AC_CHECK_LIB(insck, bsd_tcp,
-              [ AC_ADD_LIBRARY(insck) ])
+
       LDFLAGS=$old_LDFLAGS
   else
     AC_MSG_RESULT(no)

Again, I plan on working on this during the coming months.

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