I am running a wiki server for my group at work and recently moved it to a Fedora 8 OS. Everything works great except that an extension I wrote that contacts an MsSql server fails because the function mssql_connect is not there.
On my old server I used "Free TDS" (with ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetds --enable-msdblib) and built PHP with:
./configure \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds \
--enable-safe-mode \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-inline-optimization \
--enable-magic-quotes --enable-xml \
--with-gd \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib
Is there a way I can easily rebuild PHP with the "--with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds" configuration on Fedora? I would like to use yum to do this, but I don't see how. More to the point, I would like to avoid having to build everything from scratch. It's not that I don't know how, I would just like to avoid it.
Thanks for your your advice,
~Eric
So, the answer to adding mssql is as easy as "yum install php-mssql". Fixed my problem without any messing around. FreeTDS is installed an easily configurable. Thanks everyone who tried to answer or left a comment.