FreeTDS Development Group

["Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org>]

On 09/03/98, "Mihai Ibanescu <misa AT dntis.ro>" wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Brian Bruns wrote:
> > 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.
> 
I was thinking of following the Gnome-type numbering...ie .22 is the 22nd 
pre-1.0 version. This way we don't have to worry that .3 is 30% done or 
some such.

> > 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.

This really should be the default...sqsh at least wants a structure like 
that.

The important files/directories that would be expected in $SYBASE:
$SYBASE/interfaces
$SYBASE/include 
$SYBASE/lib

And I'm probably forgetting a couple (like locales if we get to this 
someday).

> 
> > 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.
> 
Thanks :)

> > 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.
> 
We will most likely be facing this on all the non-free OSes. We need to 
properly detect this.


Thanks again

Brian