FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 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? 

Hello Skip, 

configure.ac is where you want to go.  But are distinct library names
enough?  If you linked both libraries to, say, DBD::Sybase, how would it
know which ct_connect() to use?  

If you can set things up such that DBI can use Sybase and FreeTDS
libraries concurrently, leaving the choice to the application based on its
connect string, I promise you many people would be grateful and I would be
happy to include the feature.  

Regards, 

--jkl