FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

On 12 Sep 2002 16:07:15 -0500, Stan Liberman <stan AT vailsys.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 15:53, Lowden, James K wrote:
> > > From: Stan Liberman [mailto:stan AT vailsys.com]
> > > Sent: September 12, 2002 4:30 PM
> 
> 
> [snip]
> > This is caused when the aclocal program cannot find all the required
> > m4 macro files.  In this case, we have installed or upgraded software
> > packages into the /usr/local directory hierarchy.  However, aclocal is
> > only looking in the standard /usr/share/aclocal directory and the
> > local ./macros directory.  We need to tell aclocal to look in the
> > /usr/local/share/aclocal directory for user-installed files.
> > 
> > % export ACLOCAL_FLAGS='-I /usr/local/share/aclocal'
> 
> This did it!!!

Yeah!

> Thanks a lot. Also, it seems that now reentrant functions are detected
> correctly, so my suspicion is that there were more patches to the config
> scripts that were required to make it work.  

Quite so.  

> After all this I'm getting an impression that the release tarball is not
> all that stable. You really should consider building a _stable_ release
> for people out there who are not on the list.  :)

Fair enough.  Threadsafety is marked experimental, so updating the faq is
probably good enough, IMHO.  The nightly snapshot already includes
Frediano's fixes.  

When Brian changes the snapshot script to do a regular "make dist", we can
grab any arbitrary snapshot and call it a point release.  I could park
0.60.1 on ibibilio on any given fortuitous day.  Like the day after we
know we've licked the 4.2-can-crash-your-server bug.  

> I can finally start testing this 'best ever' version...feels great! :)

Tnanks.  Tell us what works and not.  Good problem reports are our best
friends.  

--jkl