FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Harrington, Paul [mailto:Paul-Harrington AT deshaw.com]
> Sent: October 22, 2003 9:44 AM
> 
> One thing I would add is that I get a lot of compiler 
> warnings with the forte C compiler on Solaris
> 
> harringp@infra1$ cc -V
>       cc: Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09

Please post the compiler output.  No one should see warnings compiling
FreeTDS; we're quite serious about adhering to standards.  

> also building and configuring the iODDBC and unixODBC has confused me
> ... DSN-less connections via DBD::ODBC via iODBC via freetds have
> confused me to the extent that I do not know where exactly 
> the confusion
> is! Hope to know shortly exactly how confused I am and why.

ODBC is the most complicated option to set up (two configuration files, or
one, or the other one!) and is further handicapped by the state of and
fragmentation of the documentation.  

> I am very happy to be a freeTDS user. 
> thanks a lot!

I didn't hear sarcasm (per your followup).  I heard happiness.  Welcome to
the party.  :-)

--jkl
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