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  • From: Francis Smit <francis AT oztel.com>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Packaging FreeTDS for Debian
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:24:55 +1100


Hi,
I've tried on and off to get freeTDS to run in PHP
connecting to a MSSQL Server 7.0 DB, and failed,
is there a rpm available?
If not could could some one tell me exact ./configure
command lines that have worked?, I'm building PHP4.0b3
as an apache module on Red Hat Linux 6.1.

Thanks for any help.

p.s. I did once get it to work going to a sybase db
across the web, but I need to hook up to a NT server
with MSSQL server, also am I only supposed to put
software on the linux box, or is there something I need to
do on the NT end as well??

Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hello,
>
> when I announced to build a Debian-Package from FreeTDS-JDBC I was
> asked to do it with FreeTDS as well. No I'll possibly use it
> myself and I'm considering to package it.
>
> Now I have some questions:
>
> 1) What is the purpose of the file
>
> /usr/interfaces
>
> I tried to check the sources but didn't found a place, where it
> is really needed.
> The reason for this is that it conflicts with the Debian policy
> for placing files. If it is really needed it should go anywhere
> under /usr/share (because it is a plain ASCII-file and so it
> is architecture independent). I'd like to suggest to place it
> in
> /usr/share/freetds/interfaces
> and I'd like to know, if this change would require any changes to
> the source.
> May be you could think about such kind of location for your
> distribution or you could make the location configurable at
> compile time.
>
> 2) *How* usable is the ODBC driver. While reading the README file,
> I wonder if this should/could go into a Debian package. However,
> ODBC would be the real clue in the FreeTDS package.
>
> 3) I was not able to run the samples from the samples dircetory.
> It would be really helpfull for me if someone could give me a
> hint, what to fill into the connection data. I run FreeTDS-JDBC
> successfully and perhaps somebody could tell me what I have to
> write in the configuration section of the three examples, if
> I could successfully access my database with the following
> JDBC-connection:
>
> Class.forName("com.internetcds.jdbc.tds.Driver");
> Class.forName("com.internetcds.jdbc.tds.SybaseDriver");
>
> String url = "jdbc:freetds://sql03/db";
> String user = "TestUser" ;
> String password = "password";
>
> Connection cx = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
>
> I have certain problems with the items I have to fill in the
> C files.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.

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