FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: RWilbert AT exchange.webmd.net [mailto:RWilbert AT exchange.webmd.net]
> Sent: November 1, 2002 1:53 PM
> 
> bash-2.05# pwd
> /home/rwilbert/freetds-0.60/src
> bash-2.05# find ./ -name "*.so*" -exec file {} \; 
> ./tds/.libs/libtds.so.o:        executable (RISC System/6000) 
> or object module not stripped
> ./ctlib/.libs/libct.so.o:       executable (RISC System/6000) 
> or object module not stripped
> ./dblib/.libs/libsybdb.so.o:    executable (RISC System/6000) 
> or object module not stripped
> ./server/.libs/libtdssrv.so.o:  executable (RISC System/6000) 
> or object module not stripped

Oh.  That means I misread your log.  

        gcc -shared -o .libs/libsybdb.so.o  .libs/dblib.o .libs/dbutil.o
.libs/rpc.o .libs/bcp.o .libs/xact.o   ../tds/.libs/libtds_

I thought "libsybdb.so.o" was "libsybdb.so.0".  "gcc -shared" should build a
shared library, and the suffix shouldn't be ".o" as in "object".  I was
expecting ".libs/libsybdb.so.2.0".  

Questions to ponder:

1.  Why .o and not .0?
2.  Is file(1) lying about the ".o" filetype?
3.  Why would "gcc -shared" -o foo.o [...] render anything but a shared
library?   
4.  Is the output not installed because make/ginstall doesn't look for *.o
files?
5.  What does "man ld" for the AIX linker indicate "-shared" does?  

I can imagine problems with A) gcc's interface to the AIX linker and B)
libtool's interface with the pair of them.  

I don't know the answers, clearly.  Perhaps the questions will be of some
use.  

--jkl


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lowden, James K [mailto:LowdenJK AT bernstein.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 11:43 AM
> To: TDS Development Group
> Subject: [freetds] RE: Shared libraries not installing on AIX
> 
> 
> > From: RWilbert AT exchange.webmd.net 
> [mailto:RWilbert AT exchange.webmd.net]
> > Sent: November 1, 2002 11:04 AM
> > 
> > When it comes to AIX I am not sure about anything. 
> > bash-2.05# file *.a
> > libct.a:        archive (big format)
> > libsybdb.a:     archive (big format)
> > libtds.a:       archive (big format)
> > libtdssrv.a:    archive (big format)
> > 
> > that was in /usr/local/freetds/lib
> 
> Thanks for handing in the homework, Roger.  :)
> 
> Wow, is this ever weird.  Just to double check, what says
> 
>       $ file src/dblib/.libs/libsybdb.so.2.0
> 
> I hope it says it's a shared library.  (!)
> 
> > checking whether to build static libraries... no
> 
> And yet that's the only thing it builds.  Curiouser and 
> curiouser.  Is there
> any way to get configure to answer "yes" to that test?  (by 
> experimentation,
> I mean.)
> 
> Your log is very clear.  The shared objects are built, but 
> "ginstall" is
> never called upon to move them into their proper home.  
> 
> Could you peek at the top of one of those 0.53 *.la files, 
> too, since you
> have it handy?  It should disclose what version of libtool as 
> used.  The
> current one says:
> 
> # libsybdb.la - a libtool library file
> # Generated by ltmain.sh - GNU libtool 1.4a (1.641.2.255 2001/05/22
> 10:39:30)
> 
> I can't see how this could be anything but libtool 
> tomfoolery.  Maybe this
> weekend I'll summon the intestinal fortitude to scrape the web for
> suggestions.  
> 
> <shrug>
> 
> --jkl
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Castellano, Nicholas [mailto:Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com]
> > Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 10:42 AM
> > To: TDS Development Group
> > Subject: [freetds] RE: Shared libraries not installing on AIX
> > 
> > 
> > In your log it says:
> > 
> > checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> > checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> > checking whether to build static libraries... no
> > 
> > Are you sure that AIX doesn't do something really stupid like 
> > using a ".a"
> > extension on its shared libraries?
> > 
> > What does "file *.a" say about these files?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > --nick
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bounce-freetds-145195 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
> > [mailto:bounce-freetds-145195 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu] 
> > Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 10:28 AM
> > To: TDS Development Group
> > Subject: [freetds] RE: Shared libraries not installing on AIX
> > 
> > 
> > I downloaded the nightly snapshot and configured and make an 
> > there are no
> > shared-libs here is a log of the configure and make. 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lowden, James K [mailto:LowdenJK AT bernstein.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 5:36 PM
> > To: TDS Development Group
> > Subject: [freetds] RE: Shared libraries not installing on AIX
> > 
> > 
> > > 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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