Installed the freetds rpms from centos-extras, also tried the ones in rpmforge http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/extras/x86_64/RPMS/freetds-0.64-11.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/extras/x86_64/RPMS/freetds-devel-0.64-11.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm Compiled python-sybase-0.39 by hand, and also via rpm. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-review/2008-August/msg01790.html This spec file modified to compile on x86_64: http://gohanman.com/rpm/Fedora9/freetds-devel/freetds-devel.spec --- python-sybase.spec 2008-10-05 21:53:49.000000000 -0600 +++ python-sybase.spec.new 2008-10-05 21:53:36.000000000 -0600 @@ -27,6 +27,6 @@ %install rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -PYVERSION=`python --version 2>&1 | sed -e "s/.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\)\.[0-9]*/\1/g"` -export PYTHONPATH="$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/python$PYVERSION/site-packages" +PYVERSION=`python -V 2>&1 | sed -e "s/.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\)\.[0-9]*/\1/g"` +export PYTHONPATH="$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib64/python$PYVERSION/site-packages" mkdir -p $PYTHONPATH export SYBASE="/usr" Both the source version and the rpm are built basically the same way, and the final result after installation is something like: # python Python 2.4.3 (#1, Mar 14 2007, 19:01:42) [GCC 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import Sybase Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/Sybase.py", line 11, in ? File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/sybasect.py", line 7, in ? File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/sybasect.py", line 6, in __bootstrap__ ImportError: /home/mbest/.python-eggs/python_sybase-0.39-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg-tmp/sybasect.so: undefined symbol: blk_alloc As per this thread: http://mlblog.osdir.com/python.sybase/2004-03/ Something may be going wrong in linking, as the sybasect.so doesn't seem to be linked to the sybase libraries. $ ldd ~/.python-eggs/python_sybase-0.39-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg-tmp/sybasect.so libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002aaaaacdf000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaef9000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000555555554000) Suggestions, comments, fixes, would all be useful. -Mike