FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Michael Peppler wrote:

> Brian Bruns writes:
>  > 
>  > I'm hoping 0.45 will be a big improvement over the prior version (0.41).
>  > However, there are still a lot of outstanding issues.  
>  > 
>  > While DBD::Sybase (Not the FreeTDS one, the one from the author of
>  > SybPerl) compiles it will not run because 1) it's core dumping when
>  > calling a message handler and 
> 
> I'll take a look at this if I can find a little time...
>
The address of the callback func is stored in the CS_CONNECTION structure
when is is called, core dump...It almost makes me thing it is something to
do with shared libraries!? (I have no logical basis for that
guess...:) Anyway, I intend to come back to it when time permits, but with
your understanding of the other side of it maybe the answer will present
its self. By the way, how do you go about debugging when you write the
perl module?

>  > 2) ct_dynamic() and friends are just stubs
>  > at the moment...this will be alot of work to implement and I didn't want
>  > to hold up the release. 
> 
> You should be able to disable the ct_dynamic() section of things if
> you code ct_capability() to return false when checking for the
> CS_REQ_DYN capability.
> 
I'll give this a try...FYI base.t and login.t work main.t stops on test 3
(message handler) and place.t has problems with ct_dynamic
>  > 
>  > There are still Solaris configure problems. I just don't have a Solaris
>  > box to try this on, and frankly I'm not that familiar with autoconf to
>  > make a guess. Hopefully, someone with a Sun box will join the team.
> 
> I've got a Sun with Solaris 7 (and Sybase). Again, if I find the time
> I'll try to check this out (although I don't know much about autoconf
> either!) 
> 
Thanks, there are so many things I should know how to do but haven't
ever bothered with. Right now I'm trying to figure out GNU gettext for
another project...

Regards,

Brian