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  • From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>
  • To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Release 0.61, rc1
  • Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 20:28:33 -0500

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:06:26 -0700, Craig Davison <cd AT securityfocus.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:44:07PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:03:32 -0700, Craig Davison
> > <cd AT securityfocus.com> wrote:
> > > Does anyone know what compile options were used when the 0.60 RPM
> > > was built?
> >
> > I don't use Linux much, but I'm pretty sure rpm can tell you: try "rpm
> > -q-dump" or something like that. Or you could look at the .spec file
> > in cvs from the 0.60 branch.
>
> Guess I never thought to do that.

:)

I don't know about you, Craig, but my closed-source habits die hard. I
still occasionally start to write a question to a list and then remember,
"Hey, I can look that up." The revolution will be complete when we have
to explain to our children that there was once a time when software wasn't
free....

> Anyway, in freetds.spec from 0.61, we have:
> %configure --with-tdsver=4.2 --prefix=/usr --with-unixodbc=/usr/local
> --enable-threadsafe
>
> Meaning the freetds.conf would be in /usr/etc. Will this be documented
> in a FAQ or document somewhere?

Suggestions, anyone? What's the right way? Is an RPM self-documenting in
this regard, or is there a commonly used technique?

--jkl




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