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[Sebastien FLAESCH <sf AT 4js.com>]

Thanks a lot Craig, the snapshot worked for me.
Will keep you informed if I still get the memory leak.
Seb

On 12/05/2014 03:39 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> > On Dec 4, 2014, at 10:05 AM, Sebastien FLAESCH <sf AT 4js.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks a lot Craig for your answer.
> >
> > 2 simple remarks:
> >
> > A) Why is there no instruction in the INSTALL file about autogen.sh?
> >
> > "Brief Instructions" just shows:
> >
> >    $ ./configure --help
> >    $ ./configure
> >    $ make
> >    $ make install
>
> I believe the intention is that people can get snapshots and shouldn't have 
> to use autogen.sh so there's no reason to document it.  Although 
> documentation for producing a release wouldn't hurt.
>
> However, I did a bit of digging on the ftp server and it turns out snapshots 
> are working -- sort of.  You can find a snapshot generated on 17 November 
> (the date of the last commit) at:
>
> ftp://ftp.freetds.org/pub/freetds/current/freetds-dev.0.92.839.tar.gz
>
> So what's broken is the last step that copies that to freetds-current.tgz.  
> Until and unless that gets fixed, I think the current workaround is to go to
>
> ftp://ftp.freetds.org/pub/freetds/
>
> and dig around in the "current" directory for whatever looks latest.
>
> > Everyone new to freetds will run these commands and face the same probs as me.
> >
> > B) Regarding the "current" version available on www.freetds.org, why is this
> > left as is? Can anyone modify these pages? Just point to the git repository!
> >
> > I must be missing something, because all of this sounds obvious and I would
> > wonder that nobody changed it already if it was so simple.
>
> Snapshots have gotten broken and been fixed multiple times.  Freddy and James 
> are busy and probably have more fun things to work on when they do have time 
> to do things.  It is frustrating, though.
>
> > On 12/04/2014 03:35 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> > > > On Dec 3, 2014, at 6:00 AM, Sebastien FLAESCH <sf AT 4js.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Can someone point me to the instructions to download FreeTDS dev version?
> > > >
> > > > When I take the sources from https://gitorious.org/freetds/freetds, there is 
> > > > no configure script.
> > > >
> > > > The INSTALL file contains instructions to use configure... what am I doing 
> > > > wrong?
> > >
> > > You have to be on a Unix or Unix-like system with recent autotools installed 
> > > and run autogen.sh in a git checkout of the current source.  If all goes 
> > > well, you should get a configure script.  If all does not go well, you may be 
> > > building autotools from scratch, which is a rather unpleasant bare knuckle 
> > > experience for those of us unaccustomed to such things.
> > >
> > > Actually you don't have to be using git as you can get a tarball of the 
> > > latest source at any time from this link:
> > >
> > > <https://gitorious.org/freetds/freetds/archive/HEAD.tar.gz>
> > >
> > > However, you do have to have autotools.
> > >
> > > > Why is the www.freetds.org still showing an old "current" download link 
> > > > (0.92.377)?
> > >
> > > The nightly snapshots have not worked reliably for years and there is an 
> > > aversion to putting generated files under version control.  The script for 
> > > generating snapshots was posted to the list once with suggestions for 
> > > improvement solicited but I don't think there were any takers.
> > >
> > > ________________________________________
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> > >
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