FreeTDS Development Group

[James K. Lowden <jklowden AT speakeasy.org>]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:35:34 -0500, "Steve Langasek"
<vorlon AT netexpress.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 08:11:46PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> 
> > FreeTDS 0.53 exported DBDEAD().  
> > FreeTDS 0.60 exports  dbdead().  
> 
> > I think you're linking to the old libraries.  What says:
> 
> > $ nm /usr/local/lib/libsybdb.so.1.0 |grep -i dbdead
> > 000036bc T _dbdead
> 
> Whoops.  Wasn't the stated plan to provide DBDEAD() as a
> backwards-compatible alias to dbdead()?  Removing symbols without
> bumping the soname is a library no-no.  If the DBDEAD() symbol is being
> dropped altogether, I'd very much like to see a 0.61 release that fixes
> the soname.

Hi Steve, 

I don't remember stating that plan.  The plan such as it is, was expressed
verily thus:  

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002 15:42:48 -0400, jklowden AT speakeasy.org wrote:
> I propose to solve this by doing what Sybase does.  Let's put a DBDEAD()
> macro in sybdb.h that calls dbdead(), and convert the actual function to
> lowercase.  In fact, let's do that for all the goofy uppercase
> brain-dead macros Sybase foisted on us over the years.  

Thanks for pointing out the soname issue.  Do you have a handy-dandy
reference for such rules, so I can hand pass it along to Release
Engineering?  You know, I don't make the rules, I just work here.  

Once I understand what to change where, I'll happily incorporate it in the
next release.  

Regards, 

--jkl