FreeTDS Development Group

["Poulson, Shawn" <shawn.poulson AT sap.com>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Greene [mailto:sgreene AT azorus.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 8:12 AM
> To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [freetds] The old MSSQL from Linux...
> 
> What error and what version of linux?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Poulson, Shawn" <shawn.poulson AT sap.com>
> To: <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:04 PM
> Subject: [freetds] The old MSSQL from Linux...
> 
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm trying to do the near impossible... access MSSQL from a 
> Linux box.
> This is one of the most frustrating things I've ever done in Linux.
> Recompiling the kernel is easier than this.
> >
> > I've read quite a bit and attempted this a few times.  I read up on
> freetds.org, iodbc.org, and CPAN perl modules DBD::Sybase and 
> DBD::ODBC.
> >
> > I can compile and install FreeTDS fine, but I cannot get 
> the DBD::Sybase
> or DBD::ODBC to install correctly.
> >
> > For DBD::Sybase I did EXACTLY as the POD doc tells me to, 
> and the 'make
> test' portion fails miserably on some error.
> >
> > For DBD::ODBC it keeps thinking I'm using udbc, eventhough 
> I've set SYBASE
> and ODBCHOME to /usr/local/freetds.  If I try a make anyway, 
> it fails trying
> to link to -ludbc.
> >
> > Has anyone had luck with this?
> >
> > ---
> > Shawn Poulson
> > shawn.poulson AT sap.com
> >
> >
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