FreeTDS Development Group

["Vijoy Varghese" <viijv AT thedifferenZ.com>]

Hi all,

I am trying to get query a MS Sql database on windows machine from a Mac OS. 
I came to hear that DBD::Sybase is a good option. But to use DBD::Sybase, I 
need to install the Client Libraries from linux.sybase.org, but nothing is 
free there, so I decided to go for the only free solution which is freeTDS.

So I hope that to query mssql, all i need to do is
1) Install freetds on Mac
2) Install DBD::Sybase with the SYBASE env variable = '/usr/local/freetds'
3) use DBI and we are done.

To do (1) i did the following...
a) downloaded latest freetds from 
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/stable/freetds-0.61.tgz
b) $ tar xvfz freetds-0.61.tgz
c) $ cd freetds-0.61
d) $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetds
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
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checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
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checking for style of include used by make... GNU
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checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
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done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating include/tdsver.h
config.status: creating include/tds_sysdep_public.h
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating include/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating samples/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating src/tds/Makefile
config.status: creating src/tds/unittests/Makefile
config.status: creating src/dblib/Makefile
config.status: creating src/dblib/unittests/Makefile
config.status: creating src/ctlib/Makefile
config.status: creating src/ctlib/unittests/Makefile
config.status: creating src/replacements/Makefile
config.status: creating src/server/Makefile
config.status: creating src/pool/Makefile
config.status: creating src/odbc/Makefile
config.status: creating src/odbc/unittests/Makefile
config.status: creating src/apps/Makefile
config.status: creating freetds.spec
config.status: creating win32/Makefile
config.status: creating win32/msvc6/Makefile
config.status: creating include/config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands

e) $ make
Making all in include
cd .. && /bin/sh /Users/admin/documents/vijoy/freetds-0.61.2/missing --run 
autoh
eader
./aclocal.m4:444: error: Autoconf version 2.54 or higher is required for this 
sc
ript
./aclocal.m4:444: the top level
autoconf: tracing failed
make[1]: *** [config.h.in] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

f) I thought the error is because i dont have the script 'autoconf'. I 
downloaded the script and installed it. But still getting same error.

I am stuck, can some one tell me what to do?

Thanking you all in advance,
Vijoy~