FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Lowden, James K wrote:

> Following suggestions in http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/  I created a
> "build" directory to hold the latest snapshot:
> 
> $ls -l .. |grep ^d
> drwxr-xr-x  4 LowdenJK  wheel     512 Jul  9 12:07 build
> drwxr-xr-x  2 LowdenJK  wheel     512 Jul  9 11:39 doc
> drwxr-xr-x  2 LowdenJK  wheel    1024 Jul  9 11:48 include
> drwxr-xr-x  2 LowdenJK  wheel     512 Jul  9 11:39 samples
> drwxr-xr-x  8 LowdenJK  wheel     512 Jul  9 11:44 src
> 
> I cd'd to build and ran "../configure" (note extra dot).  I found two
> unrelated issues.
> 
> 1.    If I run ../autogen.sh, the configure script still wants Gnu make.
> Do I have to delete the configure script to persuade autogen to build me a
> truly new one?  From CVS I don't have this problem.  

I think this is a dependancy thing that requires gmake to uhhh...see 
AM_MAINTAINER_MODE for a better description, I'm a bit fuzzy on it myself.
Only people who run automake need gmake, or something like that.

> 2.    At the end of "make install", the Makefile complains it can't find
> freetds.conf and locale.conf.  There's an assumption somewhere that these
> files will be in the current directory, rather than in the directory where
> the configure script is.  I put symlinks in my "build" directory and
> everything was fine, but that's probably not what we would ask people to do.

hmm...i thought there is a patch (from freddy77?) for that...use 
$(topdir)/freetds.conf i think...or maybe it's $(srcdir)...argh
 
> 
> I don't know how to fix this, but I thought, gee, how can I annoy Brian?  
> 
> --jkl
>