FreeTDS Development Group

[entropy AT freetds.org]

Norbert Sendetzky wrote:

> After upgrading from freetds 0.6.3 to 0.6.4 applications using libsybdb and 
> compiled against 0.6.3 stopped working. The problem is that this release have 
> broken binary compatibility by replacing the dbopen() function by a macro and 
> therefore dbopen isn't available any more in the library.
>
> I consider this a serious issue and would like to suggest using one line 
> functions calling the real function instead of using #defines.

You're mistaken, nothing changed in 0.64 (not 0.6.4) that would affect 
this.  The "missing" dbopen is intentional, to avoid a collision with 
the function of the same name in Berkeley DB.

Apparently your FreeTDS 0.63 (not 0.6.3) was configured using the 
--enable-sybase-compat flag.  If you want 0.64 to have the dbopen 
symbol, then you just need to configure it the same way.

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Cheers,
entropy