FreeTDS Development Group

[Daniel Fazekas <fdsubs AT axelero.hu>]

On Nov 16, 2003, at 21:40, Duncan Boan wrote:

> I have been unable to configure and install successfully.

Which version of FreeTDS are you trying to use?

I've successfully used every single release of FreeTDS since 0.53 on 
Red Hat Linux 7.3 (FreeTDS 0.53, 0.60, 0.61, 0.61.2, and the latest 
nightly snapshots of 0.62). 0.53 did cause a segmentation fault every 
once in a while, albeit rarely, and the later versions work rather 
well.

>  The config.log file contains  numerous 'failed program' entries - I 
> don't know whether that is normal or not.

I think it is. Mine has a couple as well, as do all config.logs. :)

> I am running redhat 7.0.  This is what I have done:
> 4.   created an entry in freetds.conf for a spcified sql server using 
> ip address and port 1443
> 6.  ./tsql -H ip address  -p 1443 -U my username -P

1443? MS SQL Server's default port is 1433 and Sybase's is something 
else.
Still, tsql would just say "Connection refused" and not cause a 
segfault.

> 5.   export $SYBASE=/usr/local

Isn't this just resulting in an error message? Did you mean "export 
SYBASE=/usr/local"?

Anyway, I never defined a SYBASE environment value and tsql and 
everything else works just fine.

> Thank you for any suggestions you may be able to provide!

Unfortunately, I don't have any ideas, perhaps analyzing those core 
dumps might help. Use gdb on them.

So far everything you described is all normal - with the exceptions 
noted above -, so things should just work. I have FreeTDS running well 
on 5 different installations of Red Hat 7.3 and all worked flawlessly 
on the first try.

What other tools besides tsql did you try? What are the results?
Obviously you aren't setting up FreeTDS just to use tsql.

--
Daniel