[freetds] Compiling FreeTDS on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

Matthijs Langenberg mlangenberg at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 04:39:18 EDT 2007


Thanks a lot for your replies! I really got stuck yesterday.Patrick, thanks
for placing your workaround, although I still see the ranlib errors while
compiling, the ODBC connection works after doing a make install.
Thank you for that.

Please keep me informed when you file a bugreport Patrick.

On 11/1/07, Patrick van Kleef <iodbc at openlinksw.com> wrote:
>
> Hi James,
> >
> > A similar report was posted a few days ago.  It looks like libtool,
> > which
> > generates the linker command, doesn't work with OS X 10.5.
> >
> > You should be able to fix this by installing a newer libtool and
> > replacing
> > the one included in the FreeTDS tarball.  Cf. the maxoshints article
> > above.  For extra credit, post the steps here.
>
> Normally you could run the glibtoolize program on your Mac OS X 10.5
> system and rerun the aclocal and autoconf scripts before running
> configure, but alas that also does not produce a working installation.
>
> The quick workaround:
>
>         ./configure ........
>         cp /usr/bin/glibtool libtool
>         make
>
>
> For some reason, the glibtool script is not the same as what
> glibtoolize installs in your project.
>
> When i have a moment i will try to digg out the exact differences, so
> i can file a bugreport to Apple.
>
>
> Patrick
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