FreeTDS Development Group

[Mike Jennings <mjenning AT islandnet.com>]

Hello Andreas,

You said that you are a member of the development team for
Debian GNU/Linux. What java runtime comes with that distribution (if any)?
And, do you know why the Blackdown JDK does not seem to
be a part of any Linux distribution?

This is only tangentially related to free-tds as it applies
to free-tds JDBC.

Regards,
 Mike Jennings


At 10:23 AM 8/19/99 +0200, you wrote:
>
>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aclocal.m4: 23: `AM_PROG_INSTALL' is obsolete; use `AC_PROG_INSTALL'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.
>
>#!/bin/sh
>     # Run this to generate all the initial makefiles, etc.
>
>     DIE=0
>
>     PROG=freetds
>
>     (autoconf --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
>             echo
>             echo "You must have autoconf installed to compile $PROG."
>             echo "Download the appropriate package for your distribution,"
>             echo "or get the source tarball at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/";
>             DIE=1
>     }
>
>     (automake --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
>             echo
>             echo "You must have automake installed to compile $PROG."
>             echo "Get ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake-1.3.tar.gz";
>             echo "(or a newer version if it is available)"
>             DIE=1
>     }
>
>     if test "$DIE" -eq 1; then
>             exit 1
>     fi
>
>     if test -z "$*"; then
>             echo "I am going to run ./configure with no arguments - if
you wish "
>             echo "to pass any to it, please specify them on the $0
command line."
>     fi
>
>     for dir in .
>     do 
>       echo processing $dir
>       (cd $dir; \
>       aclocalinclude="$ACLOCAL_FLAGS"; \
>       aclocal $aclocalinclude; \
>       autoheader; automake --add-missing; autoconf)
>     done
>     ./configure "$@"
>
>     echo 
>     echo "Now type 'make' to compile $PROG."