I've never managed to get DBD::Sybase to pass all of its tests, but the install has then worked fine.
Instead of using the standard tests, might I suggest you roll your own - a swift perl script that tests a representative sample of the sort of queries you're going to be throwing at it live. I did this, got a build that worked correctly for the script, and have been running the build in production for over a year without problems. Then again, that was with freetds-0.53rc2 and DBD::Sybase 0.93 on Mandrake and BSD/OS, so YMMV.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Jung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:31 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: (RADIATOR) FreeTDS & DBD-Sybase Install
>
>
> I am having a problem getting all the perl modules and database stuff
> installed correctly on my Red Hat 8.0 server. I was wondering
> if anyone
> might be able to help.
>
> I have installed all the MD4, MD5, LDAP, DBI modules without
> any problems.
> I am now working on getting the FreeTDS and DBD-Sybase stuff
> installed. I
> am trying to connect to a Windows 2000 SP3 server running
> MSSQL 7.0 SP3.
>
> I have downloaded both the FreeTDS v0.60 and today's CVS
> snapshot of v0.61
> and I have tried telling it to do any one of the following:
> ./configure --with-tdsver=4.2
> ./configure --with-tdsver=7.0
> ./configure --with-tdsver=8.0
> It compiles both v0.60 & v0.61 versions with no errors and
> whatever version
> of the TDS protocol that I tell it.
>
> I then try and install the DBD-Sybase v0.95 module without
> much luck. If I
> use the FreeTDS v0.60 I then have to edit the DBD-Sybase file
> dbdimp.c and
> change all cs_ctx_global(....) to cs_ctx_alloc(....) to get
> it to compile
> at all. If I use the current snapshot of FreeTDS I don't have
> to do this.
>
> Regardless no matter which way I do it I can't seem to get
> the DBD-Sybase
> v0.95 to pass all the "make test" tests with 100%. I get from
> 84% to 86% of
> the tests passed.
>
> Now my question is which version of the TDS protocol should I
> be using for
> MSSQL 7.0 SP3? The other question is, am I getting these
> errors because I
> somehow screwed up my "tempdb" database trying all these
> different versions
> of the software or should I just ignore the errors since it
> won't pass all
> the tests but it will work well enough for Radiator?
>
> In case it matters I am using Radiator-Demo 3.5, and I
> eventually want to
> connect it to Rodopi v5.2 SP3.
>
> Any help that anyone can give me would be appreciated.
>
> Tim Jung
> System Admin
> Internet Gateway
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