FreeTDS Development Group

["Bort, Paul" <pbort AT tmwsystems.com>]

I can confirm that you cannot successfully build DBD::Sybase against
FreeTDS without either (a) a complete install from source, or (b) the
freetds-devel package if installing from RPMs. It has to have the header
files. 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of James 
> K. Lowden
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:16 PM
> To: FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject: Re: [freetds] Don't know what to tell Makefile.PL 
> for DBD::Sybase on Centos
> 
> Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
> > 
> > My results were:
> > 
> > ldd $(command -v freebcp)
> >         libsybdb.so.5 => /usr/lib/libsybdb.so.5 (0x0059b000)
> >         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x0032e000)
> >         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00315000)
> > 
> > My results from env SYBASE=/usr perl ./Makefile.PL are:
> > 
> > Can't find the Client Library include files under /usr at 
> ./Makefile.PL
> > line 129, <IN> line 44.
> > 
> > Any reason that using bash would foul this up?
> 
> OK, that's progress of a kind.  And no, I don't think bash is 
> the problem.
>  
> 
> The message is quite clear: the build can't find the "client library
> include files".  Those would be the header files.  Behold:
> 
> $ ls /usr/local/include/ct*
> /usr/local/include/ctlib.h              
> /usr/local/include/ctpublic.h
> 
> There are others besides.  Yours of course should be in /usr/include. 
> That would help a bunch.  (If they're there, then I don't 
> know what could
> be wrong.)
> 
> Is it possible you need some kind of devel package?  If I 
> knew for sure
> you were missing only the .h files, I'd suggest you download 
> and build the
> source tarball, and copy them to /usr/include.  But I don't 
> know what else
> might be missing.  
> 
> --jkl
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