FreeTDS Development Group

["Marco W. Giammarinaro" <marco AT gemofthesea.com>]

I found it!
I unpacked the tarball in Windows then burned it to CD.  I copied the folder 
to /usr/local
and got the error again.  If I unpack the tarball on Linux configure works 
fine!

Thanks....

-----Original Message-----
From: Lowden, James K [mailto:LowdenJK AT bernstein.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:44 AM
To: 'FreeTDS Development Group'
Subject: RE: [freetds] Build in RH 8.0


> From: Marco W. Giammarinaro [mailto:marco AT gemofthesea.com]
> Sent: March 6, 2003 10:13 AM
> 
> Pardon my ignorance, but I can't get FreeTDS 0.6x to build in 
> Red Hat 8.0 (Psyche).

Hi Marco, 

I think you're working too hard.  :)  First of all, what do you mean by
"0.6x"?  The 0.61 release?  Last night's snapshot?  Or are you using
anonymous CVS?  

> ./configure reports a bad interpreter: no such file or directory.
> sh ./configure reports command not found2 and a syntax error 
> at line 20.

I can't read an error I can't read.  

Do you have /bin/sh on your machine?  

The configure script included in both the release and snapshots is expected
to run without error on every platform.  It might return a failure (such as,
you need a better compiler), but I've never seen "bad interpreter" messages.
Unless you want to work from CVS, I recommend you start again with the
release/snapshot.  If it fails, please run script(1) first and send us the
typescript file.  

> While ruinning Autoconf a warning message:
>   configure.in:55 AC_ARG_PROGRAM invoked multiple times

This is normal.  We don't consider it to be a problem, because it doesn't
get in our way and affects only developers.  Not that we wouldn't like it
fixed....

> ./configure now runs with the following errors
> :command not foundmissing: line 5:
...
> 
> Any suggestions?  I updated Autoconf, libtool, Automake, make, ...

Not so fast.  What means "updated"?  Autotools are very version sensitive.
If you want to go this route, here's a working combination:

$ (autoconf --version; automake --version; libtool --version) |grep GNU
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.54
automake (GNU automake) 1.7
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4a (1.641.2.255 2001/05/22 10:39:30)

--jkl


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