FreeTDS Development Group

["John Wythe" <jwythe AT silksystems.com>]

Okay here it is.

The libtool folks fix, and I tested on both 4.3.3 and 5.1, fixes both 
problems in 4.3.3, as well as the problem on 5.1.

Their fix was to set  whole_archive_flag_spec  to $convenience

Depending on how one wants to handle this, there are a number of ways to fix 
it.

The easiest being to load the 0.63 source tarball, untar it and modify the 
configure script
as follows:

search for each instance of  "how AIX traditionally", you should see 
something like:

_LT_AC_TAGVAR(whole_archive_flag_spec, $1)=' '
_LT_AC_TAGVAR(archive_cmds_need_lc, $1)=yes
# This is similar to how AIX traditionally builds it's shared libraries.

change the first line shown above as follows:

_LT_AC_TAGVAR(whole_archive_flag_spec, $1)='$convenience'

That is it, change every occurance you find in configure, there should be 4 
of them.

>From there run the configure script, make, and make install.  Don't forget 
>to cd  to where ever libtdsodbc.a gets installed and run the "ar -xv 
>libtdsodbc.a" cmd to extract the shared library if you want to use it from 
>unixODBC.


For those that would like to use some of the autotools, the same change can 
be made in aclocal.m4, 2 occurances

If you want to use aclocal you will have to make the same change in 
libtool.m4  usually found in /usr/share/aclocal, 1 occurance.

Short of that you can load the updated libtool, 1.5.22 is the current stable 
release, and the appropriate autotools that freetds requires, and run 
aclocal, etc.
I wouldn't recommend this, since firstly I haven't tried it, secondly it may 
cause more problems than it fixes, either with freetds, or other packages you 
may be compiling on your system.

Regards

John




      John Wythe, Systems Programmer
     
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