FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Matt Wisner
> Sent: July 16, 2004 2:49 PM
>
> I'm trying to build FreeTds (version 0.62.4) on solaris9.  
> Make croaks when
> it calls libtool to create libreplacements.la; bash returns "false cru
> .libs/libreplacements.a .libs/iconv.o .libs/asprintf.o 
> .libs/vasprintf.o"

I'm not sure what's going on, but I think you're misinterpreting the message 
slightly:

> /bin/bash ../../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2  -L/usr/local/lib -o
> libreplacements.la   iconv.lo asprintf.lo vasprintf.lo ^M

That's the libtool call.  It outputs

> false 

with no newline.  Don't know why.  Then make continues with:

> cru .libs/libreplacements.a .libs/iconv.o .libs/asprintf.o
> .libs/vasprintf.o^M

and cru(1) returns an error, probably stemming from the prior anomaly.  

> make: *** [libreplacements.la] Error 1^M

You might try:

$ cd src/replacements
$ /bin/bash -x ../../libtool \
        --mode=link gcc  -g -O2  -L/usr/local/lib \
        -olibreplacements.la   \
        iconv.lo asprintf.lo vasprintf.lo

That might make clearer what it is about the libtool script that Solaris 9 
dislikes.  

Alternatively, unless you need 0.62.4, you could try 0.62.3, which was built 
with an older libtool that worked with Solaris.  (IIRC it had some minor 
trouble installing the documentation, but at least it built and installed the 
libraries.)  

I would like to solve the libtool problem for 0.63, though, so if you want to 
help debug this libtool problem, that would be great.  

--jkl


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