FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> >Right.  If you can get a clean installation of FreeTDS within the
> >package/ports system, FreeTDS is ready.  But you have might to diddle
with
> >PHP, because it's expecting the Sybase header files in the sybase
> directory,
> >and you're using (or will be using) FreeTDS.

> James,
> 
> All I can say is that I did warn you I was new to this.

Yeah, well, maybe that's why I volunteered.  ;)

> I tried the port but had problems with the same files when trying to make
> PHP. After this I went back to compiling the latest version. After
following
> the instructions in the documentation and other postings I'd seen and not
> having any success I decided to read the INSTALL file again ( I had
glanced
> at it briefly before ). This time I took note of the fact that it says to
> use gmake to make FreeTDS. 

The whole make/gmake thing trips lots of new-to-non-linux people.  (What
saves the linux folks is that there's no pre-existing native make.)  The
docs are very clear, I'd say (http://www.freetds.org/userguide/config.html),
but when one first begins it's hard to absorb all the new terminology and to
sort out the important from the stale/incidental/nonapplicable.  

> After install and making using gmake everything went fine.

I'm not sure I understand.  I'm pretty sure you built FreeTDS, first with
the port and then the latest sources with gmake.  Does "everything went
fine" mean you have PHP now?  

> In my defence I did follow the instructions on the website which just said
> make. I guess they're not very helpful to a newbie like me.

I note the PHP build instructions say "make install".  Should that be "gmake
install"?

No defence necessary, Martin.  Actually, it sounds to me like they *were*
helpful, and your bafflement will help us improve them.  I'd like it to be
the case that someone with no more Unix knowledge than a hamster can get
FreeTDS working just by following directions.  So far, I'm afraid, we'd need
pretty geeky hamsters.  

Regards, 

--jkl