I have installed freetds (www.freetds.org) which is a Sybase/MS-SQL
access library. When combined with PHP it allows to access data in a
MS-SQL database through the php sybase calls. It works great exept in a
few cases. freetds is stil 0.50.
I think it would provide a great functionality to php/mandrake.
The problem is freetds is not provided as a rpm, but I was able to
compile it and install it. I was also able to recompile php by just
adding the line:
--with-sybase=/usr/local/freetds/
in the php SPEC file.
To install php you have to rpm with --nodeps as it looks for the freetds
library which was not installed via rpm
It is ok for me to redo an rpm, but I don't know how to make one.
I did like to see this functionality built-in in the next mandrake,
instead of me having to recompile each time. Please help !
Cheers
Franck
