FreeTDS installation directory is not a FreeTDS installation directory
I recently discovered an error whilst trying to (re)install an older PHP version on a client's server. My client required PHP recompiling with MS SQL support. This in turn requires FreeTDS. Installing FreeTDS is very simple, but PHP wasn't.
The PHP configure line was something like ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql --with-ldap --with-zlib --with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds/
But PHP kept reporting an error;
configure: error: Directory /usr/local/freetds is not a FreeTDS installation directory
Simply put, PHP looks for some files that no longer exist in the FreeTDS installation.
I fixed it by faking the two files it looks for;
touch /usr/local/freetds/include/tds.h
touch /usr/local/freetds/lib/libtds.a
Run ./configure for PHP again and it works fine.
It has probably been fixed in later versions.
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