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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 1997 17:31:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:      spork <spork@super-g.com>
To:        "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>
Cc:        Paul Southworth <pauls@locust.etext.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mysql: MySQL for FreeBSD 3.0 (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970812173012.3473A-100000@super-g.inch.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970811225037.175A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>

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Check the mysql homepage (www.tcx.se)...  I downloaded a 32-bit ODBC
driver there.  I believe there are also JDBC bits and pieces available.

Charles

On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote:

> 
> 
> Speaking of mysql can someone give me an idea if it is possible to have
> mysql look like a sql (or any other commercial sql server) to a windows nt
> client. I want to set up a sql server on my freebsd machine (are there any
> commercial sql servers that are _easy_ to get to work with nt as a client
> [micro$oft access denied] ) I am willing to pay { well to a reasonable
> extent } since it is to be for commercial use, of course I like the fact
> that msql has a c library interface --- but how to get i so that access
> can look at some tables.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Paul Southworth wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Test release is available for people who want to try MySQL using FreeBSD
> > 3.0 native threads.
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:27:55 +0300 (EET DST)
> > From: monty@tcx.se
> > Reply-To: monty@analytikerna.se, mysql@tcx.se
> > To: mysql@tcx.se, mysql-announce@tcx.se
> > Subject: mysql: MySQL for FreeBSD 3.0
> > 
> > 
> > For those that want to test MySQL on FreeBSD 3.0 with native threads
> > and sockets, there is now a binary version available. This can be found
> > at 'http://www.tcx.se/.'
> > 
> > This is a port of the 3.21.5 version.  If one want's to compile this
> > oneself on can get:
> > 
> > ftp://www.tcx.se/pub/mysql/hidden/mysql-3.21.5-alpha.tar.gz
> > 
> > NOTE:
> > 
> > One must install the FreeBSD libc_r patch BEFORE configuring the
> > source version.
> > 
> > >From INSTALL-SOURCE:
> > 
> > ------
> > The pthreads library for FreeBSD doesn't contain the sigwait function
> > and there is some bugs in it.  To fix this, get the FreeBSD-3.0-libc_r-1.0.diff
> > file and run this in the /usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread directory.  Follow after
> > this the instructions that can be found with 'man pthread' about how to
> > recompile the libc_r library.
> > 
> > You can test if you have a 'modern' libpthread.a with:
> > 
> > > nm /usr/lib/libpthread.a | grep sigwait.
> > 
> > If the above doesn't find sigwait you have to use the above patch and recompile
> > libc_r.
> > 
> > -------
> > 
> > Yours, Monty
> > 
> > 
> 




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