[support] Database Drivers unreachable (dependecy hell)

[Tim Johnson]

* Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net> [130601 07:11]:
> Plop <?php phpinfo(); ?> into a file and load that in your browser to 
> make sure PDO is actually loading. You should also have the base pdo 
> driver there (pdo.so) and that along with whatever databases you want to 
> use need to be loaded through php.ini as such:
> 
> extension=pdo.so
> extension=pdo_mysql.so
 Thanks Jamie : I have already done phpinfo - and I have PDO loading.

 I'm just getting to it but I believe that for drush in cli mode, I
 need a alias or a switch for 'drush updb' to tell it what driver to
 use.

 Will report back.
 cheers
> Jamie Holly
> http://www.intoxination.net
> http://www.hollyit.net
> 
> On 5/31/2013 7:31 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> > I've got drupal 7 and drush on Mac OSX 10.7
> > The original PHP install (as shipped) is 5.3.25.
> >
> > with that configuration I was able to upgrade drupal sites running
> > locally for several occassions.
> >
> > One site used sqlite, the other mysql.
> >
> > Now I have installed PHP 5.4.15, as well as the mysql and sqlite
> > drivers for php54.
> >
> > Now when I run drush updb, I get the following:
> >
> > A PDO database driver is required! You need to enable the PDO_SQLITE
> > (or PDO_MYSQL) database driver for PHP 5.2.4 or higher so that
> > Drupal 7 can access the database.
> >
> > I find
> > Applications/MySQLWorkbench.app/Contents/Resources/libraries/pysqlite2/_sqlite.so
> > /opt/local/lib/php54/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/pdo_sqlite.so
> > and
> > opt/local/lib/php54/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/mysql.so
> > /opt/local/lib/php54/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/pdo_mysql.so
> >
> > Worse, if I set the php execute as php54, drush freezes on the
> > drush updb
> > command. No error messages, just stalls.
> >
> > This is a mess. I feel that I am back in linux 6 dependency hell!
> >
> > BTW: Those of you who might be using homebrew and would recommend
> > that I convert, would be on the right track but unfortunately I have
> > over 200 _active_ packages installed via macports.
> >
> > Where do I start?
> >
> > thanks
> 
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