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Adwin,
Are trying with unixODBC or iODBC?
Also, what is your "configure" line?

Thank you.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Adwin Singh <singha AT redrock.net.au>
>Sent: Dec 21, 2010 3:19 PM
>To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [freetds] Missing libtdsodbc.so on Solaris
>
>Hi Peter,
>
>Thanks for the information. Tried what you suggested, see below:
>
>Lines commented out, still fails.
>
>            checking compile-time options
>               configure: error: sql.h not found
>
>Here is the file it claims doesn't exist
>
>root@ofdev # ls -l /opt/csw/include/sql.h
>            -rw-r--r--   1 root     bin        31896 Mar  6  2005
>/opt/csw/include/sql.h
>
>And the CFLAGS referencing it
>
>            root@ofdev # echo $CFLAGS
>               -I/opt/csw/include
>
>Is there any chance of getting a binary package for this ?
>
>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: Wednesday, 22 December 2010 3:25 AM
>To: FreeTDS Development Group
>Subject: Re: [freetds] Missing libtdsodbc.so on Solaris
>
>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
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