FreeTDS Development Group

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

Hi, 

The freetds_jdbc driver is a standalone driver that does not require the 
freetds C libraries.

Anyway, it looks like I'm going to have to dig into the libtool stuff (I 
had a problem with my RH 6.0 at work this morning too).  Problem is that 
I'm not all that up on autoconf either. I know that the ltconfig that comes 
with freetds is clashing with aclocal (which is 1.4 for me) and tries to 
call ltconfig with --no-reexec which fails.

Anyway, I'd be very interested in deb packages for the libraries, even if 
you couldn't maintain the C version, creating it would be a big help.

The samples directory has to be built manually (unfortunately). I'm going 
to try to fix this sometime...It's mostly just test programs I use in 
development anyway.

Brian

> Hello,
> 
> I'm really new to this list and all the TDS stuff and hopefully
> could solve all my problems in the future.
> 
> First of all thanks for the work of all who are involved.
> 
> My final aim is a web based interface to a MS SQL server.
> I use a Debian GNU/Linux box with Apache server.  The database
> access will be done with Java servlets.  So I was searching
> a JDBC driver for the MS SQL server which is quite hard to
> find and I'm really happy to find FreeTDS which is hopefully
> the solution for my problem.
> 
> I have to say that I'm really new to Java and SQL.
> 
> Now the problem:
> I tried to compile freetds-0.45.  I'm using Debian/GNU Linux
> potato which comes with libtool 1.2.  This results in problems
> with the configure file shipped with the freetds tar archiv:
> 
> 
> aclocal: configure.in: 14: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
> aclocal.m4: 23: `AM_PROG_INSTALL' is obsolete; use `AC_PROG_INSTALL'
> 
> I solved the problem by simply calling the appended autogen.sh
> file.  This enabled me to compile the package (thought I havn't
> tested it yet).
> Please note that it was just a trial-and-error method of an
> autogen.sh script I used for my personal Debian packages.  I'm
> not an experienced autoconf/automake user.
> 
> The next question is, how I could perform a basic test.  The
> samples directory was not mentioned in Makefile.am so that
> no tests will be compiled by default.
> 
> Furthermore, do I really need the freetds package if I only
> want to use the freetds_jdbc which seems to be pure Java?
> (There are further problems in installing the freetds_jdbc package
> which I will describe in a separate E-Mail.)
> If yes, I plan to package the freetds package for Debian GNU/Linux
> because I'm a member of the development team.  Are there any
> objections?  (If it is not necessary for the freetds_jdbc, I
> could package it as well, but I don't like to package something
> which I didn't use because I can't detect possible problems.
> Furthermore it's a matter of time.)
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>         Andreas.
>