Thanks for the response. That project is using a pretty old oracle instant client so I passed on it. I did get it working with only a few changes to the original source rpm and a patch from oracle. The problem is covered at... http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31084 and the patch from oracle is available at.... http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/files/php_oci8ic_buildpatch.txt Below is a diff of the spec file for php-4.3.9-3.8.src.rpm... 61a62,64 > # Oracle fixes > Patch79: php-4.3.9-oci8.patch > 360a364,367 > %if %{with_oci8} > %patch79 -p1 -b .oci8 > %endif > I don't know what the CentOS teams policy is on improving the packages that get from upstream but this simple fix could solve a few problems. On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:21 -0700, Greg Swallow - SkyNet wrote: > Thomas Jackson wrote: > > I am attempting to build php with oracle oci8 support. > > You should have a look here: > http://freshrpms.net/docs/oracle/ > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >