FreeTDS Development Group

[Andre Costa <brblueser AT uol.com.br>]

Hi Bob,

glad to hear you're moving forward... but, you really shouldn't do it the
way you're doing -- unpacking and compiling stuff directly on /usr/local.

UNIX tarballs usually should be unpacked on a "staging area" (it could be
root's home dir, or some other dir specific for that, YMMV), and after
compilation runs successfully, the software will always provide an
'automatic' way of self-installing (usually it is 'make install').

NOTE: in order for the installation to go to the right (expected) place,
you most likely will have to provide adequate parameters to the
configuration scripts (for automake handled installations, './configure
--help' will give you the list of options).

So, to sum it all up: don't compile things directly on the destination
dirs (specially, don't rename package dirs -- you will be amazed how fast
you'll lose track of things). Compile them at a safe place, and use
package's own installation schemes. READMEs and INSTALLs are your best
friends...

HTH

Best,

Andre

PS: Since you're using RH 7.2, you really should consider using
pre-compiled RPMs. You can find them directly on the FreeTDS download
area.

On Thu, 9 May 2002 12:31:06 -0400
"Bob Nix" <bnix AT intranexus.com> wrote:

> OK, Folks, THANKS!.  Got it.
> I deleted the freetds tree structure I had.
> Copied freetds-0.53.tgz to /usr/local
> ran     tar xzf freetds-0.53.tgz
> which created directory freetds-0.53 and copied all of the files and
> subdirectories there
> I renamed directory freetds-0.53 to freetds
>           mv freetds-0.53 freetds
> changed to /usr/local/freetds
> ran       ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetds
> and it configured without error.
> I am now proceeding onward.  I will have more questions later.
> 
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