Comment 9 for bug 240519

Well,

you solution is working, but wrong one. The real reason why sybase module
installs mssql.so is they are really (almost) the same - they use same
library to access database. With one small exception - mssql module is
better maintained and provides pdo version, and works better in some cases.
That was reason to do the switch in Debian.

I am not really sure why Steve didn't provide aliases from sybase to mssql
function, but my patch should ensure it. I'll commit it into Debian svn and
it will propage into next version of Ubuntu as well.

Ondrej.

2008/6/18 Paul McLanahan <email address hidden>:

> Solution:
>
> Ok... so I installed the php5 source package
>
> apt-get source php5
>
> I decided to just give the extension in ext/sybase a try before applying
> any patches.
>
> cd ext/sybase
> phpize && configure && make && sudo make install
>
> After that it was a simple matter of adding a sybase.ini file to
> /etc/php5/conf.d with the contents
>
> extension=sybase.so
>
> I then restarted apache2 and it works :)
>
> I'm still a bit confused as to why the php5-sybase package installs the
> mssql.so module, and the php5-mssql package is a virtual for
> php5-sybase. But it is working for me now, and hopefully the people who
> need this info can find it here.
>
> Thanks again for the help Ondřej and Chuck!
>
> Paul
>
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> sybase_* functions missing in php5-sybase for hardy
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240519
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