[freetds] Create a shell to get data from SQL Server using FreeTDS
James K. Lowden
jklowden at freetds.org
Wed Nov 12 15:51:56 EST 2008
Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> FWIW, most standard GNU configure scripts have options that you may want
>
> to adopt into the FreeTDS configure script:
>
> --with-xxx=DIR includes in DIR/include, libs in DIR/lib
> --with-xxx-includes=INCDIR includes in INCDIR
> --with-xxx-libraries=LIBDIR libs in LIBDIR
>
> You can just specify --with-xxx=DIR to set the parent directory of the
> headers and libraries directories, and you can override the default
> DIR/include and DIR/lib via --with-xxx-includes and
> --with-xxx-libraries.
Why Johnny Lam! My word, as I live and breath!
Is the 'xxx' literal? If you could point me to an example configure.ac
(perhaps offlist), I'd gladly adopt the convention.
ISTM these are pretty conventional:
$ ./configure --help | grep odbc
--disable-odbc do not attempt to build odbc the driver
--with-iodbc=DIR build odbc driver against iODBC in DIR
--with-unixodbc=DIR build odbc driver against unixODBC in DIR
--with-odbc-nodm=DIR build odbc using headers in DIR/include
although this is a bit of an oddball:
$ ./configure --help | grep 'iconv-prefix\['
--with-libiconv-prefix[=DIR] search for libiconv in DIR/include and
DIR/lib
I'm not so sure about eliminating confusion, though. It's pretty
confusing even to someone who configures packages only occasionally.
Thanks.
--jkl
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