FreeTDS Development Group

["Peter C. Norton" <spacey-freetds.org AT ssr.com>]

This is a pretty old version of the OS, released 10 years ago.  It's
kind of hard for me to know what is failing in the test but you can
simply avoid this by commenting out the test in the configure script
based on the version of the configure script I've got, starting where
it says:

{ $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking whether malloc_options variable is 
present" >&5
$as_echo_n "checking whether malloc_options variable is present... " >&6; }

comment out everything until:

{ $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_cv_have_malloc_options" >&5
$as_echo "$ac_cv_have_malloc_options" >&6; }

and leave this alone.  Before this, set the following:

        ac_cv_have_malloc_options=no

and this test should be bypassed with no harm done. The solaris tools
have massively improved between 2.8/8 and 10, so it's possible you'll
have to massage the configure script further after you do this.

It seems strange to me that the linker failing should cause this test
to fail, though.  The test is looking for this failure to determine
that malloc_options isn't present.  It doesn't make any assumptions
per your sysadmin, it's testing that this does fail when it should.
Perhaps cc or ld needs patching to avoid this.  Here's the bit from
config.log on a solaris 10 system:

configure:22151: checking whether malloc_options variable is present
configure:22182: /usr/local/sunstudio12.1/bin/cc -o conftest -m64 -g 
-xarch=sse3 -I/usr/local/freetds-0.83.dev.20100902/include 
-I/usr/local/freetds-0.83.dev.20100902/include -D_FREETDS_LIBRARY_SOURCE 
-L/usr/local/freetds-0.83.dev.20100902/lib 
-R/usr/local/freetds-0.83.dev.20100902/lib -B direct -z text 
-L/usr/local/freetds-0.83.dev.20100902/lib 
-R/usr/local/freetds-0.83.dev.20100902/lib -B direct -z text -liconv 
conftest.c -lpthread  >&5
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
malloc_options                      conftest.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest
configure:22189: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:

and it continues.  This looks identical to the output you're getting,
but we're obviously seeing different results.  I don't think that the
issue here is only the configure script, but also something else (m4,
shell, ld, cc, etc.)

-Peter

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:32:19AM +1100, Adwin Singh wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Version of Solaris:
> 
> uname -a
> SunOS ofdev 5.8 Generic_117350_50 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R
> 
> Thanks
> Adwin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Peter C. Norton
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 December 2010 7:01 AM
> To: FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject: Re: [freetds] Missing libtdsodbc.so on Solaris
> 
> I haven't seen this problem building FreeTDS-0.83.dev (various
> versions) on Solaris 10 x86 and sparc.  What version of Solaris are
> you running?
> 
> -Peter
> 
> 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 ?
> > 
> > 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