FreeTDS Development Group

[jklowden AT schemamania.org]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 03:19:02PM +1100, Adwin Singh wrote:
> 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 ?
...
>   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

Adwin, the configure script is generated by these tools:

autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
automake (GNU automake) 1.9.5
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.24 (1.1220.2.455 2007/06/24 02:13:29)

My guess: the autoconf/libtool used is too old for your setup.  

Your options:

1.  Install above tools, get source from CVS, and build your own tarball with 
"make dist".  You can do this on any system; I use NetBSD.  

2.  Hack the configure script to bypass that test, since it's obviously 
spurious in your environment.  

3.  Borrow a binary.  

4.  Hope for an updated tarball.  

If you go with option #1 and succeed, please mention it here on the list.  It 
would be incentive for option #4.  

HTH.

--jkl