FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

Il giorno 29/apr/2011, alle ore 12.11, Alexander Voropay <alexander.voropay AT gmail.com 
> ha scritto:

> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to build "freetds-0.82" on RHEL5. The RHEL5 is our
> corporative standart and
> I can't "upgrade" or change a system.
>
> There is a "freetds-0.64" RPM for the RHEL5 from the EPEL5 repository.
> Basically it works
> but I wanted to use a newer version.
>
>
> Unfortunately I can't build a "freetds-0.82" on the RHEL5. The
> "configure" script works,
> but "make" fails:
>
> # make
> CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/freetds-0.82/missing --run autoconf
> aclocal.m4:20: warning: this file was generated for autoconf 2.65.
> You have another version of autoconf.  It may work, but is not  
> guaranteed to.
> If you have problems, you may need to regenerate the build system  
> entirely.
> To do so, use the procedure documented by the package, typically  
> `autoreconf'.
> configure.ac:20: error: Autoconf version 2.62 or higher is required
> aclocal.m4:518: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
> configure.ac:20: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
> make: *** [configure] Error 1
>
>
> RHEL5 uses "autoconf-2.59" as standart package.
>
> Is there a way to build "freetds-0.82" on the RHEL5 ?

Try using patched version or rc one. It should be possible to get a  
rpm using

Rpmbuild -ta freetds-X.XX.tar.bz2

freddy77
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