Re: Cross compilation, warnings and errors

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:49 AM, James K. Lowden <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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.
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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).

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> Looks like our configure.ac needs to be updated:
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> http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Present-But-Cannot-Be-Compiled.html
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> 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.
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> I'm in the process of updating the machine that builds the distribution tarballs.  The new autotools are:
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> $ tools
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.65
> automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1
> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6b
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> 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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