I’m finally free of all studies! Graduation was a couple weeks ago now, but the photos took its time to get to me, not that I’m pointing my finger at anyone in particular. I’ve now graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology with a Diploma in Information Technology Professional Practice. 2 years too long since I took on the final couple years as a part time student.

I spent a whole day at Sydney Uni a week later with a couple mates who were also graduating. One is on his way to France for a year and the other has suffered a fracture to his spine and currently in hospital.

I don’t think I mentioned this at any earlier point, but I purchased an apartment a month ago now at an auction and currently awaiting settlement (which will be in a couple weeks time). There is just so much to arrange in terms of renovations and having to deal with the strata managers just take an awful amount of time. I’ll hope that soon enough photos of my place will start appearing with my small renovations – floorboards/painting/opening up a doorway and anything else I can afford at the moment.

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I’m currently setting up a new server to play with and apart from the usual nightmare of compiling everything and finding all their dependencies and what not, I did hit an issue which I couldn’t find a clear answer online for. I used the following to configure PHP 5.3.2:

./configure –with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs –with-gettext –with-zlib –with-jpeg-dir –with-png-dir –with-ldap –with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl –with-curl –enable-exif –enable-ftp –with-gd –with-xsl –with-libxml-dir –with-libxml-dir –with-gd –with-sybase-ct=/home/sybase/sybase64/OCS-15_0

This worked a treat, but it was when I called “make” that the following appeared.

	ld: fatal: library -lcomn: not found
	ld: fatal: library -lct: not found
	ld: fatal: library -lcs: not found

The first approach I had was to edit the Makefile that configure creates to change lcomn to lsybcomn, lct to lsybct and lcs to lsybcs. You should be able to notice that within your sybase/OCS-15_0/lib folder, there are files which reflect the later name changes – libsybcomn.so .
This worked. I then was told (since it was scribbled on a piece of paper somewhere) about sybase/OCS-15_0/scripts/lnsyblibs which creates softlinks with the expected library file names. So now there are a bunch of files looking like libcomn.so -> libsybcomn.so .

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A few quick photos from the weekend.

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