FreeTDS Development Group

["bizard" <bizard AT propellerheads.com>]

> > I tried the above with the latest nightly tarball (after 
> > making a couple of changes to get it to compile at 
> > all...documented below) and ran into the problem that 
> > apparently my autoconf is not up to date enough.  It claims 
> > to need 2.54 and I have 2.52.
> 
> Hold on.  Thanks very much for the report, but something doesn't make sense
> to me.  You're not supposed to need autoanything to use the tarball.  You're
> only supposed to need make and cc, and I guess libtool these days.
> Definitely not autoconf/automake.  

I was following a previous suggestion that re-libtoolizing (which then 
prompted me to re-aclocal etc) might solve the problem of not being able to 
make the shared libraries on os x.  I have since gone ahead and installed 
autoconf 2.54 and it does now correctly recognize the ability to build shared 
libs and attempts to build them but fails with multiply defined symbols.  As 
I stated in the beginning I only know enough to get myself into trouble, but 
since I am stuck until I get this working I have plenty of time to learn.  I 
tried adding -multiply_defined suppress to the LDFLAGS, but that doesn't 
appear to have been the correct location since I still get the same error 
(but can see that my flag was added in other locations).

thankyou for all of the assistance and putting up with a novice.

john michael