Posted by Hendri Kurniawan on 03/07/07 12:19

dirtycow wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to compile PHP 5.2.1 on my Ubuntu 6.10 server. I've
> downloaded the source code from php.net and am running the following
> "configure" command on it:
>
> ../configure --with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2 --with-mysql
> --with-informix=/opt/informix --enable-shared --enable-pdo=shared
> --without-sqlite --without-pdo-sqlite --with-pdo-mysql=shared
> --with-zlib --with-xml --with-pdo-informix=shared,/opt/informix
>
> After doing this, then "make", I copy over the generated libphp5.so file
> into my Apache extensions directory, add extension=pdo.so (and lines for
> the PDO-MySQL/Informix extensions) into my php.ini and restart Apache. I
> would expect to see PDO, PDO-MySQL and PDO-Informix listed in my
> phpinfo() - but they don't appear.
>
> So, I tried recompiling PHP but without any of the PDO extensions being
> shared. This worked, and I could see PDO and PDO-MySQL in phpinfo(), but
> not PDO-Informix. I've also tried doing a "make install" after the
> "make" in both instances, but that didn't help either.
>
> So, can anyone hazard a guess as to why none of the PDO extensions load
> when compiled shared? I don't get any related error messages in the
> Apache or System logs by the way....
>
> Cheers,
> Matt

This might or might not help, but I had this problem before when doing a
compile from source.
I solved it by checking the extension directory matched that of php.ini

Hendri

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