FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: James McGowan [mailto:jmcgowan AT luxurylink.com]
> Sent: December 2, 2003 4:30 PM
> 
> Following the advice of other members, I tried building the 
> lastest nightly snapshot and got this error:
> 
> creating libtds.la
> (cd .libs && rm -f libtds.la && ln -s ../libtds.la libtds.la)
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target 
> `sybase_character_sets.h.pl', needed by 
> `sybase_character_sets.h'.  Stop.

Argh.  Try: 

        $ touch -t 190001010101 src/tds/sybase_character_sets.h.pl 

or anything else that creates a sybase_character_sets.h.pl older than
sybase_character_sets.h.  

We developers generate sybase_character_sets.h from
sybase_character_sets.h.pl, but we don't expect a configure script to do
that.  As a convenience (and documentation) we recently added that .h.pl ->
.h rule, but I guess you're the first fellow to use the result who isn't
using CVS (CVS users would have the .pl file).  

Freddy: I don't want to include sybase_character_sets.h.pl in the
distribution, because it should never be needed.  I don't want to start any
rumors about needing Perl to run our configure script.  If we want to leave
this rule in our makefile, that's OK, but it should have no effect unless
explicitly enabled.  

I'll try to fix this in time for tonight's snapshot.  

--jkl
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