FreeTDS Development Group

[David Dick <ddick AT cpan.org>]

On 27/06/10 13:16, chad phillips wrote:
> running cpan i DBI gives me:
> Strange distribution name [DBI]
> Bundle    Bundle::DBI            (TIMB/DBI-1.611.tar.gz)
> Module<  DBI                    (TIMB/DBI-1.611.tar.gz)
>
> I believe I am running freetds-0.82.  What is the best way to check that for
> sure?

well you can find the matching Sybase.so file for Sybase.pm using the 
find command

for example

$ find / -name 'Sybase.so' 2>/dev/null

feel free to replace the root directory reference :)
then you can find the freetds library by calling

$ ldd /path/to/Sybase.so

but how to determine the version of freetds that built that file is a 
little bit more complicated.  I would suggest building and installing 
your own freetds and DBD::Sybase in a temporary directory and testing 
from that "known" point. So;

$ tar -zxf freetds-0.82.tar.gz
$ cd freetds-0.82
$ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/temp/directory
$ make
$ make install
$ cd ..
$ tar -zxf DBD-Sybase-1.10.tar.gz
$ cd DBD-Sybase-1.10
$ SYBASE=/path/to/temp/directory perl Makefile.PL 
PREFIX=/path/to/temp/directory LIB=/path/to/temp/directory/lib
$ make
$ make install

then put 'use lib qq(/path/to/temp/directory/lib);' in your perl script 
and report results.