FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Dave Blob wrote:

> Hi everyone...
> 
> I'm fairly new here, so forgive me if this is all known.  Additionally, I'm 
> happy to work on a patch for what I'm pointing out, I just haven't gotten 
> to it yet.
> 
> 1) "make check" though documented, doesn't do anything

Actually that's the genreic autoconf instructions.  One day those will be
removed (once somebody writes a good install file that is :-)

> 2) "make test" does what "make check" is probably meant to do, but only 
> after the entire package has been installed (so far as I can tell).
I thought this was fixed in CVS (to use .libs/* that is), but I'm not
sure.

> 3) On solaris, the test directories seem to get compiled sans "-lnsl 
> -lsocket"
Hm...I'll look at that.

> 4) It's really easy to get "Unknown marker:0!" with the 7.0 support, so for 
> MS SQL, I just switched to 4.2, which seems ok...
TDS 7.0 support is rather new and I am temporarily without access to MS
SQL, so it's likely to be that way until I get a MS SQL setup (working on
it)

> Anyhow, I've just gotten things compiled, but figured the feedback may help 
> others.  Like I said, I'll try to send in a patch for some of it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
>