FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: RWilbert AT exchange.webmd.net [mailto:RWilbert AT exchange.webmd.net]
> Sent: October 31, 2002 5:03 PM
>
> I just did a:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetds --with-tdsver=7.0 and 
> I have the same problem. 

ie, no error and no shared libraries, right?  I may have to list this under
"known issues".  

> I dl freetds-0.53 and during the ./configure 
> (same as above) I
> got:
> *** Warning: the GNU linker, at least up to release 2.9.1, is reported
> *** to be unable to reliably create shared libraries on AIX.
> *** Therefore, libtool is disabling shared libraries support.  If you
> *** really care for shared libraries, you may want to modify your PATH
> *** so that a non-GNU linker is found, and then restart.
> 
> Pretty Cool message huh ?
> I did'nt know there was a issue with gcc and AIX but that 
> looks like that is my problem.

Don't get me don't get me don't get me started on libtool.  Gadzooks is it a
pain.  

I have to agree that message is clear, give 'em credit for that.  Now, try
to find out the current state of affairs, try to find out if this is thought
to be solved and if so as of what version.  Don't be surprised if you come
home emptyhanded though.  :(

FWIW, I have: $ ld --version
                GNU ld 2.11.2

What I don't understand and doubt I can find out is: What to do?  I mean, I
suppose if you point your path to AIX's ld, that might help.  But if it
does, what happened to the warning?  (The 0.53 release used older versions
of the GNU autotools to generate the configure script than we're using now.
You're using the 0.60 release, yes?  That might -- I don't know -- have used
*older* tools than 0.53 did; they were built by different people on
different machines with different OS's.  That could account for the missing
warning, but who can tell?)  And if it doesn't, then what?  

Roger, if you haven't already, please try the latest snapshot.  If that
doesn't solve the problem, I'd like very much to know.  Even though I, um,
don't like libtroll ^W libtool very much, I have to document anything that
our AIX friends might trip over.  

It would help if you would use script(1) to capture the whole output of
"configure; make; make install" and post the file (as an attachment) here.
That way we can check for messages and look at precisely what "make" is
doing.  

Thanks for your time.  

--jkl



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