FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <james.k.lowden AT alliancebernstein.com>]

> From: Dave Varley
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 7:27 AM
> 
> I am trying to use FreeTDS to connect from an RS6000 running AIX
> 4.2.1.0 to a Windows 2000 SQL Server 2000 database.  When trying
> to use tsql -H ***.***.***.*** -p 1433 -U sa -P ******* I get an
> immediate illegal instruction (coredump).
> ...
> When I configured, I had to specify --disabled-threadsafe and
> --disable-shared to get the program to make.  Other than that, I
> had no problems.

Hi David, 

The next message in your TDSDUMP log would be from iconv, something
like:

write.c:134:tds_put_string converting 9 bytes of "localhost"

Maybe the problem is iconv?  Try --disable-iconv.  

Please let us know.  I may need to update the UG.
(http://www.schemamania.org/projects/freetds/build/doc/userguide/osissue
s.htm#AIX)

Regards, 

--jkl


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