FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Chen, Meeilei
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:29 PM
> 
> We installed freeTDS 0.63 on an HP-UX 11.0 machine.  We have Sybase
> 12.5 on the HP box and MSSQL on a 2000 server.  I can use tsql to
> connect to both Sybase and MSSQL but when I tried to use test.pl
> to connect to SQL I got the following message.  
> ****** The context
> allocation routine failed when it tried to load localization files!!
> One or more following problems may caused the failure
> 
> Your sybase home directory is /usr/local/freetds. Check the
> environment variable SYBASE if it is not the one you want!  Cannot
> access file /usr/local/freetds/config/objectid.dat ********

That's not a FreeTDS message.  If you're using sample/test.pl, you're
using Perl, and you need to relink Perl to the FreeTDS libraries (libct)
instead of Sybase's.  

> I have exported SYBASE environmental variables to = /usr/local/freetds
> according to the freetds user's guide. 

Does the UG still say that?  Unless you did 'configure --prefix
/usr/local/freetds' when you built FreeTDS, that wouldn't be the right
value for the SYBASE environment variable.  The default location is
/usr/local nowadays.  

The SYBASE variable is used when building DBD::Sybase to find the
include files and libraries.  It's not used by FreeTDS at all, and afaik
it's not needed by DBD::Sybase at run time.  

> 1. where should do I set my SYBASE home directory to? My original
> Sybase installation directory? Or the /usr/local/freetds 

Point it to the FreeTDS prefix, and rebuild and reinstall DBD::Sybase.  

> 2. any
> other ENV I need to set up besides SYBASE (ex. SHLIB_PATH? SYBASE_ASE?
> SYBASE_OCS?...)

No, those are all Sybase things.  FreeTDS's environment variables are as
outlined in the User Guide.  No other magic.  ;-)

HTH.

--jkl


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