FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

Martin Spott <Martin.Spott AT uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
> "James K. Lowden" wrote:
> 
> > Please test it with your favorite OS.  I'm guessing I'll release it
> > Sunday if there are no complaints.  
> 
> I have different results to provide for IRIX-6.5.22 with MIPSPro-7.41
> and AIX-5.1 with GCC-3.3.2. Simple queries using 'tsql' are easy to
> achieve, although the linker on AIX is a bit picky ....  which results
> in the need to add
> 
>   ../tds/.libs/libtds_objects.a ../replacements/.libs/libreplacements.a
> 
> here and there where '-ltds' is being linked into a binary.

Hi Martin, 

I note you're using static libraries.  That conforms with Brian's
experience.  I guess we need a note in the UG and/or README about that? 
Or does every AIX user know?  

I'll try adding a note in the UG about the AIX linker and --disable-apps. 
Please tell me if I botch it.  

> Collaboration with unixODBC-2.2.10 is pretty difficult. I simply copied
> a configuration which is known to work on Linux and applied it to both
> machines. IRIX (I have a dummy account for such tests):
> 
> sirius: 17:25:29 ~> isql gluehbirne mas dummy4
> SQL> sp_who
> [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLExecute

I don't know what to make of this.  

--jkl