FreeTDS Development Group

[Martin Spott <Martin.Spott AT uni-duisburg.de>]

"James K. Lowden" wrote:
> 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.

> 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 believe things are a bit different. Look at this:

osprey: 11:44:24 ~> ls /usr/X11R6/lib/lib*.so
ls: No match.
osprey: 11:44:37 ~> ldd /usr/local/bin/ntpd
/usr/lib/libcurses.a(shr42.o)
/opt/freeware/lib/libreadline.a(libreadline.so.4)
/usr/local/bin/ntpd
/usr/lib/libcrypt.a(shr.o)
/usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o)


When the name of a library file ends on .a this apparently doesn't say
that this is a static lib. Although there are shared libs ending on .so
as well ....
To ease things wouldn't it make sense to link libtds_objects and
libreplacements directly into libtds - be the latter shared or not ?

> > 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.  

Nothing  ;-)  It was just meant as an informal note,

Martin.
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