FreeTDS Development Group

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

Just fowarding this along, it may be of use to some of the people
trying to run under Solaris.


Gregg, did you figure out your LIBTOOL problem? was it the same as this
one? If so maybe you can drop him a line and let him know what you did?

Thanks

Brian

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 22:42:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>
To: David Whitmarsh <david.whitmarsh AT dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: freetds

I've actually been doing quite a bit of work on the server side lately.
Currently I can point isql to it, log on and send a query.  I've got some
bugs in the return portion that I'm hoping to have working soon.  I
will then be checking that stuff into CVS.  What is not there yet that you
are probably looking for is rpc's from SQL Server to FreeTDS server.  

Also, I've been dusting off my Lex and Yacc book to do some SQL parsing,
but I probably won't get around to that for some time.

There are also some other issues like threading, Sybase seems to use
cooperative threads which is actually not a bad solution.
 
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, David Whitmarsh wrote:

> 
> I downloaded freetds the other day and have had a look at the sources.
> 
> Although this is obviously early days I am very interested in what you
> are doing. In particular, I can see a lot of potential if this code
> can be developed to act as a server - number of times I have been
> frustrated by the exhorbitant licence costs of open server, now I see
> another way of achieving similar ends. In fact, access to the TDS
> layer opens even more possibilities.
> 
> I would be interested in helping this development along, I can
> normally find a few hours each week for this kind of tinkering and I
> have a lot of experience with Sybase, UNIX, C. Some with windows and
> SQL server, but not a lot with GNU style portability coding and
> autoconf etc.
> 
All help is greatly appreciated!

> btw, building on Solaris 2.5 today I encountered a couple of wobblers.
> 
> line 1724 of "configure" barfed when CFLAGS was blank
> 
> if test -n $CFLAGS; then OLDCFLAGS="$OLDCFLAGS -DHW_LITTLE_ENDIAN";
> 
> I had to add some quotes 
> 
> if test -n "$CFLAGS"; then OLDCFLAGS="$OLDCFLAGS -DHW_LITTLE_ENDIAN";
> 
> Is this a problem with autoconf?
> 
We had another report of that just this week, unfortunately I don't have
access to a solaris box, so I'm not going to be much help there.

> Also libtool couldn't find ltmain.sh, I couldn't quite see why.
>
Gregg Jenson also ran across a libtool problem, he may be able to help. 
> 
> 
> Let me know if you'd like help and we can get into details then.
> 
>
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> David
> 
> 
I do encourage you to use the mailing list, as I check that from work
and home...This account is home only.  I am cc'ing there for followups.

Brian