Packaging FreeTDS for Debian

Francis Smit francis at oztel.com
Tue Dec 21 19:24:55 EST 1999


Hi,
    I've tried on and off to get freeTDS to run in PHP
connecting to a MSSQL Server 7.0 DB,  and failed,
is there a rpm available?
If not could could some one tell me exact ./configure
command lines that have worked?, I'm building PHP4.0b3
as an apache module on Red Hat Linux 6.1.

Thanks for any help.

p.s. I did once get it to work going to a sybase db
across the web, but I need to hook up to a NT server
with MSSQL server, also am I only supposed to put
software on the linux box, or is there something I need to
do on the NT end as well??

Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hello,
>
> when I announced to build a Debian-Package from FreeTDS-JDBC I was
> asked to do it with FreeTDS as well.  No I'll possibly use it
> myself and I'm considering to package it.
>
> Now I have some questions:
>
> 1) What is the purpose of the file
>
>      /usr/interfaces
>
>    I tried to check the sources but didn't found a place, where it
>    is really needed.
>    The reason for this is that it conflicts with the Debian policy
>    for placing files.  If it is really needed it should go anywhere
>    under /usr/share (because it is a plain ASCII-file and so it
>    is architecture independent).  I'd like to suggest to place it
>    in
>      /usr/share/freetds/interfaces
>    and I'd like to know, if this change would require any changes to
>    the source.
>    May be you could think about such kind of location for your
>    distribution or you could make the location configurable at
>    compile time.
>
> 2) *How* usable is the ODBC driver.  While reading the README file,
>    I wonder if this should/could go into a Debian package.  However,
>    ODBC would be the real clue in the FreeTDS package.
>
> 3) I was not able to run the samples from the samples dircetory.
>    It would be really helpfull for me if someone could give me a
>    hint, what to fill into the connection data.  I run FreeTDS-JDBC
>    successfully and perhaps somebody could tell me what I have to
>    write in the configuration section of the three examples, if
>    I could successfully access my database with the following
>    JDBC-connection:
>
>        Class.forName("com.internetcds.jdbc.tds.Driver");
>        Class.forName("com.internetcds.jdbc.tds.SybaseDriver");
>
>        String url      = "jdbc:freetds://sql03/db";
>        String user     = "TestUser" ;
>        String password = "password";
>
>        Connection cx  = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
>
>    I have certain problems with the items I have to fill in the
>    C files.
>
> Kind regards
>
>         Andreas.

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