FreeTDS Development Group

[Mihai Ibanescu <misa AT dntis.ro>]

On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Brian Bruns wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Mihai Ibanescu wrote:
> 
> >     This message didn't make it to the list, since the list manager
> > denies messages longer than 50k.
> >     In the meantime I've released 0.22, because I didn't include
> > the interfaces file and I did not see the History file (which now is named
> > ChangeLog, in GNU style... sorry)
> >     freetds 0.22 is available via ftp at 
> > ftp://sysadm.dntis.ro/pub/devel/freetds/
> > 
> Hi,
> 
> The autoconf looks good, just a couple of minor issues.
> 
> 1) Versions: I've upped this to version 0.3, there were enough changes to 
>    justify this, especially with gnuification (?) This version also
>    includes Greggs long query fix.  It's it the normal place:
>
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/freetds-0.3.tgz

        That's correct. But the version upgrade could be done only by the
authors. Maybe it's room to talk about the version numbering here. I don't
know if it's OK to skip from 0.22 to 0.3, maybe to 0.30. Or to mark devel
versions something like 0.2-2 or 0.2.2, then we could skip to 0.3. This is
because if I RPM package it for RedHat systems, I believe rpm will think
0.22 is newer than 0.3 (and not only rpm is the problem). Maybe I'm wrong.

> 2) AUTHORS file, I put my name in and a couple others...If anyone
>    submitted code please add/update your info.  Hopefully we will have a
>    CVS tree soon.

        This is the place I did not know what to write.

> 3) The lib directory...most programs built against open client expect a
>    $SYBASE/lib directory.  It appears everything is going into
>    $SYBASE/src/[dir]/.libs ?  I could be mistaken on this one.

        Well, one could force it to install there:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetds
export SYBASE=/usr/local/freetds

        If it's going to be like this, probably another thing to write in
the FAQ. Otherwise, have to read more to find out how to change the
default prefix. Probably I'll have to define prefix=/usr/local/freetds in
the config.in.

> 4) Makefiles for the unit tests seem to have disappeared since they were
>    moved to the samples directory.

        Yeah... I did not want to make the Makefiles link against the .o
files, but against the libraris. Doing this BEFORE the installation is
tricky because the libraries are stored in strange dirs by libtool. I
think I'll generate a Makefile based on a Makefile.am, and install the
samples dir in $SYBASE (just like Sybase's CTlib does). I'll look into
this today or tomorrow.

> 5) BSDI...I get an error making on a BSDI machine in the dblib directory,
>    the error message follows, (possibly assuming GMake?)
> 
> make: don't know how to make /%,. Stop

        I think it's because a non-GNU make.

> I haven't been able to test against rs/6k or Digital Unix yet. (I'm in
> Sybase P&T class this week), so I don't know how well it'll work
> there....I'll let you know when I can. 
> 
> Everything appears to work otherwise. Thanks again.

        Still a lot of work to do on this..

> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:49:41 +0300 (EET DST)
> > From: Mihai Ibanescu <misa AT dntis.ro>
> > To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> > Cc: Syberl list <sybperl-l AT listproc.net>
> > Subject: freetds-0.21
> > 
> >             Hello
> > 
> >     You'll find attached the first version of the GNUified freetds.
> > I've changed, but not dramatically, the directory structure. I've modified
> > the README file. No code modification at all. Just renaming of all
> > unittests in the sample subdir.
> >     The libtool has added support for dynamically liked libraries. Had
> > no time to check wether they work or not.
> >     The TDS version is now a configuration option (run 
> > ./configure --with-tdsver=4.2 for TDS 4.2).
> >     Byte order is determined by configure.
> >     Brian, please complete the AUTHORS file and then release another
> > version (in configure.in the version number, then `make dist'). With no
> > permission I've added myself there :-)
> >     Still some work to do. But I'd appreciate if others will test it
> > (it's 11PM and have to go home and zzzz) and report me any
> > bugs/suggestions/enhancements. I'd like to hear from Big Endian guys,
> > since I have no Sparcs/Alphas around. Is that option really working!?
> > 
> > Best wishes, and good luck,
> > 
> >                                             Mihai
> > 
> >     Mihai Ibanescu                  Dynamic Network Technologies 
> > http://sysadm.dntis.ro/~misa              Moara de Foc 35, et. 7, 6600 
> > Iasi
> >     misa AT dntis.ro                       tel. +40-32-252936
> > 
> 
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                                                Mihai

        Mihai Ibanescu                  Dynamic Network Technologies 
http://sysadm.dntis.ro/~misa          Moara de Foc 35, et. 7, 6600 Iasi
        misa AT dntis.ro                       tel. +40-32-252936