FreeTDS Development Group

[huw.edwards AT talk21.com]

Hi, 

I had a problem building freetds on one of our platforms (AIX 5.3) and it 
came down to the fact that it didn't have a suitable BSD compliant install. 
This meant it set the value of INSTALL_DATA to be "../../install-sh" - this 
was fine for most of the build but gave errors when it came to doc/images.  

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find $d/doc/freetds-0.91/reference \( -type f -o -type l \) -exec \
        ../../install-sh -c -m 644 {} 
/opt/thirdparty/freetds/share/doc/freetds-0.91/reference ';'
cd ../../doc && find images -name \*.gif -exec \
        ../../install-sh -c -m 644 {} 
/opt/thirdparty/freetds/share/doc/freetds-0.91/{} ';'
find: 0652-083 Cannot execute ../../install-sh:: A file or directory in the 
path name does not exist.
find: 0652-083 Cannot execute ../../install-sh:: A file or directory in the 
path name does not exist.
...etc
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The following patch changes the working directory from "../freetds/doc" to be 
"../freetds/doc/images" so "../../install-sh" can be found.

--- Makefile.am.safe    2011-12-22 11:04:17.000000000 +0000
+++ Makefile.am 2011-04-09 14:57:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -121,9 +121,8 @@
        if test -r $(DOCDIR)/reference ; then d=.; else d="$(srcdir)"; fi; \
        find $$d/$(DOCDIR)/reference \( -type f -o -type l \) -exec \
                $(INSTALL_DATA) {} $(TARGET_DOCDIR)/reference ';'
-       cd $(srcdir) && find images -name \*.gif -exec \
-               $(INSTALL_DATA) {} $(TARGET_DOCDIR)/{} ';'
+       cd $(srcdir)/images && find . -name \*.gif -exec \
+               $(INSTALL_DATA) {} $(TARGET_DOCDIR)/images ';'


The right answer is that we should get a proper "install" but I thought I'd 
send you this fix in case anyone else hits the same issue. 
Regards
Huw