FreeTDS Development Group

[David Hearn <david.hearn AT uk.xo.com>]

Hi, I've just subscribed to this list - hope that I've got it all correct.  
Anyway, onto my question.


I've been happily using FreeTDS 0.51 (the tar.gz file off the main FreeTDS 
webpage) for a while now, but I recently noticed that the last digit of a 
numeric field was being chopped off when talking between a Perl DBI client 
and 
a MSSQL 7 db.   I figured out where the problem was and 'fixed' it.  I then 
checked this mailing list, and apparently there was a post around the 12th 
March which said that the CVS version had been updated to fix this.  I 
promptly got the CVS version to try it out.  This is where I encountered a 
problem.

When I did a ./configure it happily made the Makefile, but when I try make 
(its a Debian system, so it uses gmake) I got the following messages:

djh@monster:~/temp/newfreetds/freetds$ make
cd . && aclocal
cd . && automake --gnu Makefile
cd . && autoconf
configure.in:36: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:37: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:38: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:39: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:40: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:41: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
configure.in:98: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross 
compiling
autoconf: Undefined macros:
configure.in:19:AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
make: *** [configure] Error 1


>From this point on, if I ever try doing a ./configure I get the following 
message:

checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
./configure: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL: command not found
checking for socket in -lsocket... (cached) no

I don't know much (anything) about ./configure etc, all I know though is that 
I cannot make the CVS version.

I've followed the INSTALL file, but it seems that the CVS version isn't 
working right, or I've got something wrong.  I don't know enough about 
./configure etc to try and fix it (or figure out what's wrong).

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

David Hearn

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