FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Ron Creamer [mailto:ron AT pageworks.com]
> Sent: December 23, 2003 10:17 AM
> 
> After compiling SQSH 2.1, and trying to run it with -H -U and -P 
> parameters, it immediately displays the copyright notice, 
> then hangs for 
> 20 seconds and returns me to the shell prompt.
> 
> tsql, given the same parameters, runs fine.
> 
> I'm running the latest Fedora Core w/ all the updates. Downloaded the 
> latest snapshot of freetds last night. Configured with:
>   --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --enable-msdblib --with-tdsver=7.0
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

SQSH is written to Sybase's standard, not Microsoft's.  I'm a little
surprised it even links to FreeTDS with msdblib enabled.  


> I applied a patch credited to Gentoo to the src/config.h file 
> after my I ran configure:

This is a sqsh patch, right?  I don't see how it could do any harm, although
you could probably do without it.  

> I went back and took the latest release version of freetds (from 
> August), and I get the same result.

I run sqsh 2.1 routinely, as do others.  

Try:

1.  Configure without --enable-msdblib.
2.  Double check that sqsh is linking to the right FreeTDS (with ldd).  
3.  Post a log, so we can see where it's giving up.  
4.  Run sqsh under gdb, and post a backtrace if it catches a signal.  

HTH.  Always happy to help a fellow sqsher.  

--jkl


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