FreeTDS Development Group

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

Have you've set the SYBASE environment variable to the place where
you installed freetds?

To turn on logging on set the TDSDUMP env variable, for instance 'export
TDSDUMP=/tmp/freetds.log'

Brian

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, John Dejournett wrote:

> Brian,
> 
> I tried running the t0001 test, but the only output was "tds failed! on
> t0001.c".
> 
> This inspired me to do a little debugging on the test source.  The first
> thing I discovered is that in freetds/src/tds/util.c, line 245 there is a
> test to determine if the interfaces file is present.  For some reason
> interf_file = \000, and the test failed.  Because of this, the interfaces
> file was never being read.  As a temporary workaround for this I copied the
> /usr/local/freetds/interfaces file to ~/.interfaces.  This did work to get
> the server IP and port numbers.  Anyone who knows how to fix this, I would
> greatly appreciate a suggestion.
> 
> Now back to the main issue.  After some further debugging the t0001 program
> is connecting to the server.  It sends login information, but apparently the
> login fails.  It also appears that there is a log file that tracks these
> transactions with the server.  If anyone knows where that file is and what
> it is called, this may contain some useful information on exactly what the
> error is.
> 
> Finally, another note for the implementers:  not that I don't appreciate
> having the libraries already  compiled with the debugging information, but
> to make the libraries as small as possible I would suggest having a switch
> in the configure options to enable or disable debugging.
> 
> Sincerely,
> John DeJournett
> 
> 
> 
>               -----Original Message-----
>               From:   Brian Bruns [mailto:camber AT umcc.ais.org]
>               Sent:   Thursday, March 09, 2000 5:22 PM
>               To:     TDS Development Group
>               Subject:        [freetds] Re: make test fails
> 
> 
>               try running one of the example programs and see what the
> error is.
> 
>               [camber@localhost freetds]$ cd src/tds/unittests
>               [camber@localhost unittests]$ make
>               [camber@localhost unittests]$ ./t0001
> 
>               Brian
> 
>               On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, John Dejournett wrote:
> 
>               > Michael,
>               > 
>               > Thanks for the suggestion.  It is a start, but make test
> still fails every
>               > test.  The PWD file now contains entries for my login
> name, password, the
>               > server entry name from /usr/local/freetds/interfaces, and
> the database name.
>               > I doubt that it would make any difference, but I am
> running configure with
>               > the -with-tdsver=4.2 parameter, and the database I am
> using in interfaces is
>               > an MS-SQL server.
>               > 
>               > I did not notice anything in the install file or
> documentation for editing
>               > the PWD, so that would be a good note for the
> implementers/maintainers.  Any
>               > other ideas to get these tests working would be greatly
> appreciated.
>               > 
>               > Sincerely,
>               > John DeJournett
>               > 
>               >               -----Original Message-----
>               >               From:   Michael Suedkamp
> [mailto:ms AT suedkm.franken.de]
>               >               Sent:   Wednesday, March 08, 2000 6:01 PM
>               >               To:     TDS Development Group
>               >               Subject:        [freetds] Re: make test
> fails
>               > 
>               >               Have you adapted the PWD file?
>               > 
>               >               Michael
>               > 
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