FreeTDS

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:50:48 +0100, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:

> Packages are updatet and available under
> http://www.coolspot.de/fedora-devel/.
> Please test them, if you can.
> 
> *They have not reached production quality* ( yet ;-) )
> 
> Thanks to whom made suggestions ( mostly Michael Schwendt ).
> I tried to fix what I could, but a few questions are left :

You've missed several of the comments, though.

> Shared libs are now into /usr/lib/freetds/, which is fine.
> Is ldconfig aware ?  Or do I need to tell rpm to make an entry in 
> ld.so.conf ?
> Is there a "magical" way to let rpm do it ?

Not necessary. Didn't you wonder that the executables included in
the freetds package find the libraries in /usr/lib/freetds just fine?
See e.g. output of "ldd /usr/bin/freebcp". RPATH magic.

> Michael Schwendt mentioned to check for extra (terrestrial) dependencies,
> and I found fedora-rpmdevtools.
> Where are these beasts ?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/fedora_2drpmdevtools