FreeTDS Development Group

[Mihai Ibanescu <misa AT dntis.ro>]

On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Brian Bruns wrote:

> 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?

        Maybe including libtool was not such a good idea after all, since
a lot of you guys complain about not being able to compile it cleanly. At
the time it was the only thing I could think of to portably compile
libraries. Maybe not that portable... I'll try to look into libtool a
little closer, maybe there is something that I've missed.
        I'll try to d/load and compile freetds on a clean machine,
obviously my development one is far too obfuscated by tomo many
installs/upgrades/compiles.
        One more thing. Do you think a RPM (RedHat Package Manager)
package could help the Linux community (RedHat nad Caldera) to test
FreeTDS? I could do it in no time, and Linux people would get over the
compiling part (some of them are really scared by this :-)

> ---------- 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.


                                                Mihai

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