new SuSE RPMs (was: Re: sapdb on SuSE 8.0)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer]

Hi,

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Mathias Kettner wrote:

> What is the difference to the packages from sapdb.org?

OK, so here is a little announcement:
the packages which will be delivered with SuSE Linux 8.1 and those on the
ftp-server have mainly the following changes:
- /usr/spool is no longer used; it's all /var/spool now
- the packages are available for the following architectures
  (not all of them are fully tested yet)
  * ix86
  * IA64
  * x86-64 (AMD Hammer)
  * IBM zSeries
- the runtime-created database files (and supplementary files as logs and
  config-files) are not longer world-read-writable
  (all database system users have to be in group sapdb)

> By the way: Does SuSE also have PHP-Packages with sapdb support
> enabled? Why don't you anyway enable the support in gerenal?
> It is *very* tedious compiling the PHP thing with all that external
> libraries, even using the SuSE src.rpm. On every new SuSE release
> since I hade to recompile PHP.
>
> It would be ***veeeeeeeeery*** nice to have a precompiled PHP
> package from SuSE with support for sapdb :-)))

not for 8.1. Perhaps this is possible with future releases.
PHP is AFAIK linked against libiodbc. So you should be able to use ODBC?


CU,

   Wolfgang