FreeTDS Development Group

[Luis Lavena <luislavena AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:49 AM, James K. Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org> wrote:
>
> Yes, I see.  I don't know how that file came to be used in bsqldb.c.  It's 
> not needed: I switched it to use sybfront.h, and it still compiles fine.  
> Sorry it misled you.
>

Thank you for the clarification :)

You have an idea when the Git mirror will catch up?

https://github.com/brianb/FreeTDS

Seems is old.

I'm testing and modifying the nightly snapshot and I don't feel
confortable working on something that lacks history.

(and I forgot all my tricks to deal with CVS, sorry).

>
> Looks like our configure.ac needs to be updated:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Present-But-Cannot-Be-Compiled.html
>
> The AC_CHECK_HEADERS macro has been improved, and by using the new version, 
> we would catch certain kinds of problems at configure time instead of at 
> build time.  The warning shouldn't interfere with your compilation, though.
>
> I'm in the process of updating the machine that builds the distribution 
> tarballs.  The new autotools are:
>
> $ tools
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.65
> automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1
> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6b
>
> Previously we were running autoconf 2.59, and likely as not the macro we're 
> using was written for a still older version.
>

Awesome to hear this.

Thank you again.
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Luis Lavena
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