FreeTDS Development Group

["freddy77" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it>]

> 
> That won't work today.  I decided to leave cvs a little broken, rather than
> adding a file that might not belong there.  
> 
> My thought was, there are two kinds of developers:
> 
> A.    CVS users, who need the GNU autotools to generate the configure
> script
> B.    Tarball users, who just run ./configure
> 
> The question is, should Type A users ;) also be required to have Perl,
> because that's what generates tds_willconvert.h.  Or, is it better just to
> put big warnings on tds_willconvert.h that say, "Please Don't Edit Me, edit
> convert.c intead" (in the appropriate Billy Goat Gruff voice).  
> 
> If the answer is, No Perl Needed (for anyone), I'll check in the file and
> hope no one touches it with vi.  As long as everyone plays nice, that's the
> easier route.  It's really really easy to edit the "truth table" in
> convert.c and run 
> 
> As a practical matter, I don't see the file changing very much.  Right now,
> it holds what's *supposed* to be convertible, according to Sybase.  Once
> Bill is done with TDS convert, Sybase's answer and ours will be the same, so
> there won't be an ongoing need to tweak the file with changing yes/no
> answers.  
> 
> Hope that makes the implications clearer.  :)
> 
Perhaps a patch like this is useful:

Index: src/tds/.cvsignore
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/freetds/freetds/src/tds/.cvsignore,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 .cvsignore
--- src/tds/.cvsignore  21 Nov 2001 04:31:03 -0000      1.3
+++ src/tds/.cvsignore  11 Jul 2002 19:42:42 -0000
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
 *.lo
 *.la
 .deps
+tds_willconvert.h
Index: src/tds/Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/freetds/freetds/src/tds/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 Makefile.am
--- src/tds/Makefile.am 5 Jul 2002 20:23:49 -0000       1.6
+++ src/tds/Makefile.am 11 Jul 2002 19:42:42 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
 SUBDIRS                        =       unittests
 
 lib_LTLIBRARIES                =       libtds.la
-libtds_la_SOURCES      =       mem.c token.c util.c login.c read.c write.c 
convert.c
numeric.c config.c query.c iconv.c locale.c challenge.c threadsafe.c
+libtds_la_SOURCES      =       mem.c token.c util.c login.c read.c write.c \
+       convert.c numeric.c config.c query.c iconv.c locale.c challenge.c \
+       threadsafe.c tds_willconvert.h
 INCLUDES               =       -I$(top_srcdir)/include
 LIBS           = @LIBICONV@
 libtds_la_LIBADD       = $(NETWORK_LIBS)
+
+convert.o: tds_willconvert.h
+convert.lo: tds_willconvert.h
+
+tds_willconvert.h: convert.c
+       perl -x $< > $@

freddy77