FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

I update a bit file faq.html

(my english is not so good to commit directly :) )

freddy77

Index: doc/faq.html
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RCS file: /cvsroot/freetds/freetds/doc/faq.html,v
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@@ -179,11 +179,11 @@
 <a name="What is FreeTDS"></a>
 <h3> What is FreeTDS?</h3>
 
 <p>FreeTDS is a free re-implementation of the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol
 that is used by Sybase and Microsoft for their database products. It currently
-implements TDS 4.2, 5.0 and 7.0, and can communicate with
+implements TDS 4.2, 5.0, 7.0 and 8.0, and can communicate with
 any Sybase product as well as Microsoft SQL Server.</p>
 
 <p>FreeTDS comes with a low level library (the TDS layer) along with a
 number of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). The current APIs are DB-Lib,
 CT-Lib, and ODBC.</p>
@@ -411,11 +411,11 @@
 <p>You also have the following options you can add to the configure
 statement:</p>
 <dl><!-- second level list of terms -->
 	<dt><tt>--with-tdsver=VERSION</tt></dt>
 	<dd>specify the fallback TDS version 
-	<br>(4.2, 4.6, 5.0, or 7.0) [default is 5.0].</dd>
+	<br>(4.2, 4.6, 5.0, 7.0 or 8.0) [default is 5.0].</dd>
 	<dt><tt>--enable-msdblib</tt></dt>
 	<dd>enable Microsoft APIs and behavior for DBLib (useful only for porting Win32 dblib apps)</dd>
 	<dt><tt>--enable-dbmfix</tt></dt>
 	<dd>rename dbopen() to tdsdbopen() as a work around for dbm name
 	conflict</dd>
@@ -423,10 +423,21 @@
 	<dd>assume the C compiler uses GNU ld [default=no]</dd>
 	<dt><tt>--enable-shared</tt></dt>
 	<dd>build shared libraries [default=yes]</dd>
 	<dt><tt>--enable-static</tt></dt>
 	<dd>build static libraries [default=yes]</dd>
+
+	<dt><tt>--with-libiconv-prefix=DIR</tt></dt>
+	<dd>search for libiconv in DIR/include and DIR/lib. required for FreeBSD. iconv is a library for converting between charsets.</dd>
+	<dt><tt>--with-iodbc=DIR</tt></dt>
+	<dd>build odbc driver against iODBC in DIR</dd>
+	<dt><tt>  --with-unixodbc=DIR</tt></dt>
+	<dd> build odbc driver against unixODBC in DIR</dd>
+	<dt><tt>--with-ssl</tt></dt>
+	<dd>enable ssl. This option enable NT domain authentication for ms sql server (use with TDS7/8). This stuff have not been tested very much.</dd>
+	<dt><tt>--enable-threadsafe</tt></dt>
+	<dd>compile for thread safety [default=no]. Some environment have problem with theadsafe socket function. Use with care.</dd>
 </dl> <!-- end nested dictionary list -->
 
 <p>
 <b>IMPORTANT</b> You must either build with TDS version 4.2 to access Microsoft SQL
 Server or Sybase prior to 10.0 or change these values to 4.2 at runtime! TDS 7.0 may also be used to talk to Microsoft
@@ -446,11 +457,11 @@
 <h3>What other environment variables are there?</h3>
 
 <ul>
 <li>
 <var>TDSVER</var> will override the default TDS version, possible values are 4.2, 5.0,
-and 7.0</li>
+7.0 and 8.0</li>
 
 <li>
 <var>TDSDUMP</var> will specify a location for a log file for debugging. Beware that
 your database login passwords may be listed in this file.</li>
 
@@ -709,10 +720,12 @@
 </p>
 <p>
 If you have a Solaris machine and the requisite <tt>autoconf</tt> skills to fix this, a patch would be appreciated.
 </p>
 
+<p>Update: fixed in 0.60</p>
+
 <a name="DBD_Sybase093"></a>
 <h3>I couldn't get DBD::Sybase 0.93 to compile.</h3>
 
 
 <p>DBD::Sybase 0.93 uses some features of ct-lib not currently available
@@ -908,12 +921,11 @@
 Users who connect through a Windows NT account can make use of trusted
 connections in either Windows NT Authentication Mode or Mixed Mode. After
 successful connection to SQL Server, the security mechanism is the same
 for both modes.
 </p>
-<p>
-We are very close to getting domain authentication working.  If you have access to a SQL Server in domain authentication mode and can do a network trace, let us know!
+<p>Update: support for "Windows NT Authentication" has been added in 0.60. This stuff are quite new so may not work.
 </p>
 
 <A name=textdata></a>
 <h3>My <tt>text</tt> data are being truncated or are causing my client to 
 break.</h3>