FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From:  Spadea, David NYC
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:58 AM
> 
> I've upgraded to m4 1.4.2, automake 1.9, autoconf 2.59. 'autoheader'
is
> version 2.59. 
...
> 1. ODBC build issue doesn't exist in RC2. It builds just fine now.
> 2. tsql still doesn't build (see below)
> 3. upgrade of 'autoconf' fixed the initial build issue I was having.
While I
> upgraded other things, the build was still broken until the new
autoconf was
> introduced. 

It seems the autotools are used by the configure script if they are
detected.  That's a shame; the whole idea behind make(1) is to build
only what's needed, and you certainly don't need to regenerate the
tarball's header files.  

Any suggestions on how to control this spurious dependency would be most
welcome.  

> 4. --disable-odbc problem was 'pebkac' error. Sorry...
> 
> 'Working' configure command (from a fresh un-tar):
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/export/home/dbspadea/3rd/freetds-0.63RC2
> --with-unixodbc=/export/home/dbspadea/3rd/unixODBC --with-tdsver=4.2
> --disable-apps
> 
> 'tsql' symbol ref errors:
> 
> gcc -g -O2 -o .libs/tsql tsql.o
-L/export/home/dbspadea/3rd/unixODBC//lib
> ../tds/.libs/libtds.so /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -L/usr/local/lib
> -L/usr/lib -L/usr/openwin/lib -lnsl -lsocket -lc
> -R/export/home/dbspadea/3rd/freetds-0.63RC2/lib -R/usr/local/lib
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> tds_set_interfaces_file_loc         tsql.o
> tds_submit_query                    tsql.o
> tds_process_result_tokens           tsql.o
> tds_client_msg                      tsql.o
> tds_alloc_login                     tsql.o
> ...

If you would, please review the mailing list archives for the last few
months.  Building tsql was an issue.  It was connected iirc with the
format of nm(1) output, which caused libtds to have no symbols (and
rendering it useless).  I don't remember if it was AIX or Solaris.  

I don't think there's anything we can do autotoolwise.  I'd like to at
least document the problem.  

--jkl

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