FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

Which version of DBD::Sybase?  FreeTDS's features generally lag a bit 
behind what DBD::Sybase uses (moving target).  Possibly try one or two 
versions older of DBD::Sybase.

Brian

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I've actually been using freeTDS for a while, but just recently joined the 
> mailing list because this is the first time I've had a problem!  The 
> programmers have done a great job and I'm really grateful for this very, 
> very 
> useful library.
> 
> Now, my problem:
> 
> I preivously was using FreeTDS 0.53 + DBD::Sybase for Perl 5.6.1 on a SuSE 
> 7.3 
> system.    I'm now re-building that application server on Red Hat 8.0, and 
> am 
> having a problem getting FreeTDS + Sybase to work.
> 
> I received a number of "missing library" errors when I configured 
> DBD::Sybase, 
> but the FreeTDS docs said that this is normal.  I also saw a cycle of 
> errors 
> on make, though, but proceeded anyway.   However, when I try to execute a 
> test perl script, I get:
> 
> perl: relocation error: 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBD/Sybase/Sybase.so:
>  
> undefined symbol: cs_ctx_global
> 
> This error is similar to the ones I saw during make.   Is anyone familiar 
> with 
> this?  Is it caused by RedHat supplying the "multi-threaded" version of 
> Perl 
> with 8.0?  If so, does anyone have a clue how to get RH to revert to 
> "regular" perl?
> 
> Thanks so much for any help you can give.
> 
>