FreeTDS Development Group

[Gordon Ross <ross AT fas.harvard.edu>]

Hi Steve,

>         I've tested  FreeTDS on Linux/Alpha  before, and have just  run a
>    quick test using  0.61pre1 and DBD::Sybase (0.93).  I  had no problems
>    here; if  there is a specific  test I can  run that he knows  to cause
>    problems, I'm  happy to give it  a shot here.  However,  my build logs
>    for 0.60 show  no 64bit-specific errors, which makes  me think this is
>    somehow a Tru64 problem, not a 64-bit problem.

          The problem I experience  is when perl/dbd-sybase/freetds is used
     via a mod_perl application in apache.  Outside of apache I have had no
     problems with 0.60.  The freetds build is performing properly.

               -- Gord

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> > Hi,
> >
> >           I  rebuilt freetds 0.60 as a  32 bit module  (cc -taso) and 
> > tests
> >      using apache/perl/dbd-sybase/freetds so far have been successful 
> > (!!).
> >      I  am very relieved.   Since this  caused  memory to  be 
> > re-organized,
> >      there  still exists the possibility of  memory trashing, but all 
> > looks
> >      good so far.
> >
> >           Thank you very much, Michael, for pointing this out!
> >
> >                -- Gord
> >
> >      
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> >
> > > >           I have loaded perl  5.8.0/DBD-Sybase .91, .95/freetds .60 
> > > > and  it
> > > >      works properly except if I    use it under apache 
> > > > (1.3.27)--which   is
> > > >      where I  need it most.   The errors I receive are  (1)  seg 
> > > > fault, (2)
> > > >      cannot find symbol  iconv_open  (during the loading of  
> > > > Sybase.so) and
> > > >      (3) "Had  to create DBD::Sybase::dr::imp_data_size 
> > > > unexpectedly".  Oh,
> > > >      and  sometimes it  works.   The   errors  always  happen  during 
> > > >   the
> > > >      DBI -> connect ().   My  guess   is  that  memory is   being   
> > > > trashed
> > > >      somewhere.
> > >
> > > I would bring this up on the freetds mailing list. I suspect that this
> > > may a problem with the 64bit-ness of Tru64 and that FreeTDS doesn't
> > > handle this correctly.
>
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