FreeTDS Development Group

[ikorot AT earthlink.net]

Adwin,
What's "man malloc" gives you? Maybe there is some good info there?

Thank you.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Adwin Singh <singha AT redrock.net.au>
>Sent: Dec 19, 2010 10:12 PM
>To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [freetds] Missing libtdsodbc.so on Solaris
>
>Hi,
>
>Not on Solaris - that appears to be a linux feature:
>
>$ cat /etc/malloc.conf
>cat: cannot open /etc/malloc.conf
>
>Thanks
>Adwin
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
>[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
>ikorot AT earthlink.net
>Sent: Monday, 20 December 2010 4:00 PM
>To: FreeTDS Development Group; FreeTDS Development Group
>Subject: Re: [freetds] Missing libtdsodbc.so on Solaris
>
>Hi, Adwin,
>
>From "man malloc" (http://www.rocketaware.com/man/man3/malloc.3.htm):
>
>"Malloc will first look for a symbolic link called /etc/malloc.conf and
>     next check the environment for a variable called MALLOC_OPTIONS and
>fi-
>     nally for the global variable malloc_options and scan them for
>flags in
>     that order.  Flags are single letters, uppercase means on,
>lowercase
>     means off."
>
>Is Solaris has a link "/etc/malloc.conf"?
>
>Thank you.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Adwin Singh <singha AT redrock.net.au>
>>Sent: Dec 19, 2010 8:19 PM
>>To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>>Subject: Re: [freetds] Missing libtdsodbc.so on Solaris
>>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>We've double checked. The --with-unixodbc option is not on by default,
>>so was not in the original freetds installation. We have rebuilt but
>>hitting an issue because the software assumes "malloc_options" is
>always
>>available. Issue is that "malloc_options" is only available on FreeBSD
>>and Linux, not Solaris.
>>
>>FYI we are running Solaris SPARC 64bit. Is it possible to get around
>>this issue or get a precompiled version for Solaris ?
>>
>>See below from our IT Guys:
>>
>>I've rebuilt with
>>
>>  root@ofdev # LDFLAGS=-L/opt/csw/lib CFLAGS=-I/opt/csw/include
>>./configure --with-unixodbc=/opt/csw/lib --prefix=/opt/freetds/
>>
>>This fails because of an assumption within the freetds software that
>>"malloc_options" is always available.
>>
>>configure:20732: checking whether malloc_options variable is present
>>configure:20758: cc -o conftest -I/opt/csw/include
>>-D_FREETDS_LIBRARY_SOURCE -L/opt/csw/lib -lmalloc conftest.c -lpthread
>>>&5
>>Undefined                       first referenced
>> symbol                             in file
>>malloc_options                      conftest.o
>>
>>However malloc_options is only available on FreeBSD and Linux; it is
>not
>>available on Solaris.
>>
>>It is not possible to enable the --with-unixodbc option 
>>
>>Thanks
>>Adwin
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Adwin Singh 
>>Sent: Friday, 3 December 2010 4:39 PM
>>To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
>>Subject: RE: [freetds] Missing libtdsodbc.so on Solaris
>>
>>Thanks - let me double check if configure, make and make install were
>>indeed performed.
>>
>>I'll report back.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
>>[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Dann Corbit
>>Sent: Friday, 3 December 2010 10:39 AM
>>To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
>>Subject: Re: [freetds] Missing libtdsodbc.so on Solaris
>>
>>Did you perform make?
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:freetds-
>>> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Adwin Singh
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:07 PM
>>> To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
>>> Subject: [freetds] Missing libtdsodbc.so on Solaris
>>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> We have just installed freetds on a Solaris machine at /opt/freetds.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> We are attempting to connect from Oracle to a SQL Server machine.
>I've
>>> noticed that in the setup, it requires a library file called
>>> 'libtdsodbc.so' which should be located at /opt/freetds/lib.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately the file doesn't exist, other library files exist but
>>not
>>> this file. I believe this should have been installed as part of
>>> freetds.
>>> Do you have any suggestions on generating this library file ?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your help
>>> 
>>> Adwin
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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