php5 @5.2.8_0 on Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther: iodbcext.h: No such file or directory

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

php5 @5.2.8_0 doesn't build on Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther with Xcode 1.5. Chris Janton originally ​reported ​this on macports-users, but the true error got lost in hundreds of lines of subsequent warnings. The real problem is that ​php now wants to include iodbcext.h, which Apple provides on Tiger and up but not on Panther:

/bin/sh /mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8/libtool --silent --preserve-dup-deps --mode=compile /usr/bin/gcc-3.3 -I/usr/include -Iext/odbc/ -I/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8/ext/odbc/ -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8/include -I/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8/main -I/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8 -I/mp/include/libxml2 -I/mp/include -I/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8/ext/date/lib -I/mp/include/freetype2 -I/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8/ext/mbstring/oniguruma -I/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8/ext/mbstring/libmbfl -I/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8/ext/mbstring/libmbfl/mbfl -I/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8/TSRM -I/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8/Zend  -I/mp/include -no-cpp-precomp -no-cpp-precomp  -I/mp/include -O2  -c /mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8/ext/odbc/php_odbc.c -o ext/odbc/php_odbc.lo 
In file included from /mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8/ext/odbc/php_odbc.c:37:
/mp/var/macports/build/_Volumes_data_macports_ports_www_php5/work/php-5.2.8/ext/odbc/php_odbc_includes.h:104:22: iodbcext.h: No such file or directory

The problem started with php 5.2.7. 5.3.0alpha3 has the problem too. 5.2.6 worked fine.

The php5 port does this curious thing:

platform macosx {
    configure.args-append \
        --with-ldap=/usr \
        --with-kerberos=/usr \
        --with-iodbc=/usr
}

It's been that way since the port was originally added in r7760.

I'm unclear why we're using a system library here for ODBC support. Could we use a port instead? I don't see a port for iODBC but I do see one for unixODBC and ​PHP does support that. Would that be sufficiently equivalent functionality?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

r44881: I changed php5 and php5-devel to no longer attempt to include ODBC support on Mac OS X 10.3 or earlier. That seems to be the least-intrusive change, since it changes nothing for users of Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. If someone running 10.3 or earlier needs ODBC support, or if someone running any version of Mac OS X has information about changing the ODBC support to use a port instead of a system library, please let me know.

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