FreeTDS Development Group

[John Gilmore-Baldwin <jbaldwin AT theolympian.com>]

Hardware: Powerbook G4 running Mac OS X 10.3.1

To get it to compile, I had to do the following:

./configure --disable-threadsafe

(without this, it triggered the #error line about gethostbyname_r style 
unknown. I don't recall having to do this previously on OS X, and I 
haven't researched this at all.)

And the old trick with libtool still is required:

edit line 205 of the libtool script in the distribution. take out 
"\$deplibs"

I probably should add --disable-odbc to the configure switches, since I 
don't use ODBC, am unsure how to set it up, and am too lazy to put 
forth the time right now to figure it out.

Meanwhile, all tests passed (except ODBC, which all failed, but that's 
my own fault).

However, I did get many errors in the tests. Don't know if they're 
relevant or not:

DB-LIBRARY error (severity 4, dberr 20049, oserr -1, dberrstr 
Data-conversion resulted in overflow., oserrstr OpenClient):
DB-LIBRARY error (severity 4, dberr 20049, oserr -1, dberrstr 
Data-conversion resulted in overflow., oserrstr OpenClient):
All tests passed!
PASS: t0019

and

Creating table
select
DB-LIBRARY error (severity 3, dberr 20070, oserr -1, dberrstr I/O error 
while reading bcp data-file., oserrstr OpenClient):
1 rows copied
dblib okay on t0017.c
PASS: t0017

Hope this helps.

On Dec 26, 2003, at 8:23 PM, James K. Lowden wrote:

> I think we're about ready to release 0.62.
>
> The TODO has a few things outstanding.  I've listed them and their
> statuses below.  We made some significant changes to the installation 
> of
> the documentation, but otherwise the code has been pretty stable since 
> at
> least November.
>
> If you are reading this message, and if you have time to do a little
> testing, this is your big moment!  If you:
>
> 1.  have hardware other than an i386 box, or
> 2.  use a compiler other than gcc, or
> 3.  link to a libiconv other than GNU's, or
> 4.  use a locale other than US English, or
> 5.  have some weird environment (you know who you are), or
> 6.  rely on TDS 4.2, or
> 7.  connect to a very old or very new server, then
>
> please, try installing and running the unit tests for the current
> snapshot.  It is expected to work in all cases, but I doubt it's been
> tested for all cases.
>
> Obviously, many eyes make light bugs, and even the conventional
> arrangements might expose a problem.  Even if you don't have something
> exotic, give it a whirl.  This is not your father's FreeTDS.
>
> I would also ask that you read the new UG, especially if you know
> something about ODBC and/or PHP.  We get a lot of questions about those
> aspects of FreeTDS on the list, and I'd like this version of the UG to
> make those things clearer.  Since I don't actually *use* them, though, 
> I'm
> less than the ideal person to write about them.  So catch me out, and 
> make
> the UG better.
>
> If you've reported a bug that hasn't been fixed or listed in TODO, 
> please
> remind us.  One way or the other, 0.62 is supposed to be the answer.
>
> With your help and a little luck, 10 January 2004 could be our release
> date.
>
> --jkl
>
>
>
> To Do List      $Id: TODO,v 1.90 2003/12/24 01:10:43 jklowden Exp $
> ------------
> Broken:
> . Undelimited data files should be read w/ tds_iconv_fread().
>         * Oh, well.
> . bigint trouble with TDS 8.0?
>         * fixed, no?
>
> For 0.62 version:
> . log and call error handler on problems with tds_iconv_init().
>         * easy, or can wait.
> . ct_dynamic and friends needed for DBD::Sybase placeholder support 
> (work
> in progress)
>         * broken, wants expertise.
> . FAQ
>   - multiple statemets question
>         * Not a show stopper.
>   - PHP workaround with multiple connections (see ML)
>         * Not familiar terrain for me, can wait.
> . userguide
>   - iconv strategi
>         * I think this is well enough documented in the build instructions and
> the Nonwestern language section.
>   - link to reference manual, add to web
>         * done.
>   - update table of working configurations
>     server (vendor, version, platform) - client (freetds version,
> platform)
>     - protocol - charsets - date
> 	* I'd like to generate this table automatically one day.  I think 
> it's OK
> as is, because we basically claim to run anything anywhere.
>
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