FreeTDS Development Group

[Skip Montanaro <skip AT pobox.com>]

Our company has used the Sybase libraries from C++, Python and Perl
for a long time.  SQL Server recently snuck into our environment, so
we want to use FreeTDS alongside the Sybase client libraries.  Alas,
the shared library names for FreeTDS and the Sybase client libraries
overlap (perhaps they are identical).  This creates problems for
applications which want to access both Sybase and SQL Server.

We're not ready to dispense with the Sybase client libraries at this
point.  Our current hack is to modify the relevant FreeTDS Makefile.am
files then run auto(re)conf.  It seems like this should be a configure
flag though (--avoid-library-name-clash anyone?).  I didn't see
anything in the configure script's help output that would do that.  If
I was to work up a patch for configure.in (or configure.ac?) would
this be looked upon favorably?  If not, we'll stop where we are and
just create a diff and apply it when building a new version.

Thanks,

Skip Montanaro
skip AT pobox.com