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

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> From: Mike Boldi [mailto:mboldi AT intrinsiq.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:37 PM
> 
> >> What happens if you remove "-ldl"?  That library looks redundant.
> 
> Bad things!! 
> 
> If either I remove -ldl (from the makefile) or link it (as you have) I
get
> Messages like :
> 
>
/usr/local/lib/libct.a(iconv.o)(.text+0xd5):/tmp/freetds-0.63/src/tds/ic
onv.
> c:142: undefined
> ference to `_libiconv_close'
>
/usr/local/lib/libct.a(iconv.o)(.text+0xeb):/tmp/freetds-0.63/src/tds/ic
onv.
> c:144: undefined
> ference to `_libiconv_open'
>
/usr/local/lib/libct.a(iconv.o)(.text+0x103):/tmp/freetds-0.63/src/tds/i
conv
> .c:147: undefine
> eference to `_libiconv_close'
> 
> I see libiconv on my machine ...????....
> 
> find /usr -name libiconv*
> 
> /usr/lib/libiconv.a
> /usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a
> /usr/lib/libiconv.la
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/libiconv-1.9.2.README
> /usr/share/doc/libiconv-1.9.2
> /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libiconv.mo
> /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libiconv.mo
> /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libiconv.mo

Oh, well, I'd say those are good things, actually.  If libiconv is the
only problem, you have two paths:

1.  If you don't really need libiconv -- you're OK with English or ISO
8859-1 -- reconfigure FreeTDS --without-libiconv.  Then you won't try to
link it in; you'll be using the built-in replacement.  

2.  Link it to sqsh explicitly, something like -liconv.  I imagine under
Cygwin the libiconv is GNU's, which FreeTDS supports.  

--jkl

> >> Here's what I have:
> >>
> >> $ (cd /usr/local/lib/; ls -l libdl*) |cut -b30-
> >>   Aug  6  2002 libdl.a -> /usr/local/lib/libct.a
> >>
> >> I don't know where that symlink came from; maybe it's my own
30-second
> >>  hack.  I do know Sybase's Open Client (for which sqsh is written)
> >> distributes several libraries whose functions FreeTDS combines into
one:
> >> libct. 
> >>
> >> Hope that helps.  Let us know how it goes.  
> >>
> >> --jkl


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