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sqsh 2.5 configure 32/64 bit detection fails

Paul Webster — Thu, 29 May 2025 09:52:44 -0000

The 32/64 bit detection in the configure script of sqsh 2.5 fails because the C code cannot be compiled:

configure:3832: checking Compiling 32/64 bit mode
configure:3856: gcc -o conftest -O2 -DSYB_LP64   conftest.c  >&5
conftest.c:21:1: error: return type defaults to 'int' [-Wimplicit-int]
   21 | main() {
      | ^~~~
conftest.c: In function 'main':
conftest.c:23:5: error: implicit declaration of function 'exit' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
   23 |     exit (0);
      |     ^~~~
conftest.c:1:1: note: include '<stdlib.h>' or provide a declaration of 'exit'
  +++ |+#include <stdlib.h>
    1 | /* confdefs.h */
conftest.c:23:5: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit' [-Wbuiltin-declaration-mismatch]   23 |     exit (0);
      |     ^~~~
conftest.c:23:5: note: include '<stdlib.h>' or provide a declaration of 'exit'
configure:3856: $? = 1
configure: program exited with status 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define HAVE_VOLATILE 1
| #define STDC_HEADERS 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
| #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
| #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
|
| main() {
| #if defined (__LP64__) || defined (__LP64) || defined (_LP64) || defined (__arch64__)
|     exit (0);
| #else
|     exit (1);
| #endif
| }
|
configure:3869: result: 32

This is with gcc 15.1.1 on Fedora 42. configure command was:

./configure --with-readline --without-x CFLAGS=-O2 -DSYB_LP64

To make it work I had to add #include <stdlib.h> and change main() to int main() in configure.

#66 migration to git?

Benjamin Slade — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:03:43 -0000

Looking at GitHub Quickstart for Projects, I think the first step would be to create an "organization project". To do this, you first have to setup a GitHub "organization". See Creating a new organization from scratch.

But it looks like a GitHub "organization" needs a either a real organization behind it, or a real person with a personal email. I haven't used GitHub before, but I would be glad to give this a try. But I would want buy-in/approval from the existing sqsh owners on SourceForge before doing this

Ben Slade
Senior DBA @ NCBI.NLM.NIH.gov

#67 Build fails on Fedora 30

Tox Fox — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:39:31 -0000

Sorry, this is for v2.5, but it seems I cannot change that field.

Build fails on Fedora 30

Tox Fox — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:37:56 -0000

gcc   -L/opt/sybase/lib -L/lib64 cmd_alias.o cmd_bcp.o cmd_buf.o cmd_connect.o cmd_do.o cmd_echo.o cmd_exit.o cmd_for.o cmd_func.o cmd_go.o cmd_help.o cmd_history.o cmd_if.o cmd_input.o cmd_jobs.o cmd_kill.o cmd_lock.o cmd_loop.o cmd_misc.o cmd_read.o cmd_reconnect.o cmd_redraw.o cmd_reset.o cmd_return.o cmd_rpc.o cmd_run.o cmd_set.o cmd_shell.o cmd_show.o cmd_sleep.o cmd_wait.o cmd_warranty.o cmd_while.o var_ctlib.o var_date.o var_debug.o var_dsp.o var_hist.o var_misc.o var_passwd.o var_readline.o var_thresh.o dsp.o dsp_bcp.o dsp_csv.o dsp_conv.o dsp_desc.o dsp_horiz.o dsp_html.o dsp_meta.o dsp_none.o dsp_out.o dsp_pretty.o dsp_vert.o dsp_x.o sqsh_alias.o sqsh_args.o sqsh_avl.o sqsh_buf.o sqsh_cmd.o sqsh_compat.o sqsh_debug.o sqsh_env.o sqsh_error.o sqsh_expand.o sqsh_fd.o sqsh_filter.o sqsh_fork.o sqsh_func.o sqsh_getopt.o sqsh_global.o sqsh_history.o sqsh_init.o sqsh_job.o sqsh_readline.o sqsh_sig.o sqsh_sigcld.o sqsh_stdin.o sqsh_strchr.o sqsh_tok.o sqsh_varbuf.o sqsh_main.o -lct -ldl -lm   -lreadline -lncurses  -lcrypt sqsh_parser/sqsh_parser.a -o sqsh
/usr/bin/ld: cmd_connect.o: undefined reference to symbol 'cs_ctx_alloc@@FLSSL_1'
/usr/bin/ld: //opt/sybase/lib/libsybcs64.so: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [Makefile:211: sqsh] Error 1

#64 Kerberos authentication for SQL Server

Vento — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:56:00 -0000

Try this:

kinit -k -t mykeytab myprincipal
sqsh -S myserver -U "" -P "" -D mydb -C "select 1"

In order to use Kerberos authentication, you must specify the "-U", "- P" parameters with empty values. Actual for versions sqsh since 2.1.7 and later.

migration to git?

Steve Langasek — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:59:36 -0000

Hi there,

As noted in https://sourceforge.net/blog/decommissioning-cvs-for-commits/ , CVS support in sourceforge is now read-only. Do you have any interest in migrating to git? Is there anything I could do to help you with this migration?

I have done a repo conversion from CVS to git locally for use downstream in the Debian package of sqsh, and would be happy to push this to sourceforge for upstream use.

git would seem to also open the door for a nicer patch submission workflow, and we have a downstream delta in Debian that it would be nice to forward for consideration.

Build Fails Against Newer Versions of FreetDS

Isaac Good — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:42:10 -0000

Build fails against newer versions of freetds due to the removal of the CS_TDS_80 constant used in cmd_connect.c

I see that the staged 3.0 changes have already fixed this by redifining CS_TDS_80 to CS_TDS_71, can a 2.5 release be done to also patch this?

#64 Kerberos authentication for SQL Server

Martin Wesdorp — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:19:45 -0000

Hi,

Currently sqsh only supports the Kerberos implementation of SAP/Sybase OpenClient to connect to ASE using SSO. To connect to MSSQL you'll need the FreeTDS driver. The FreeTDS middleware implementation of Kerberos is much different from the SAP/Sybase one and it requires some coding effort to implement. Maybe I will add FreeTDS gssapi support in a later version.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Martin.

Kerberos authentication for SQL Server

Anupinder Rai — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 20:07:08 -0000

HI,
I am interested to use sqsh for Kerberos authentication to connect to SQL Server. I could find any proper documentation for this.Can someone please provide some hints .
I have Kerberos environment fully configured. I am using sqsh 2.1.7.

sqsh -Sservername -Uusername -Z
sqsh-2.1.7 Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Scott C. Gray
Portions Copyright (C) 2004-2010 Michael Peppler
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
For more information type '\warranty'
sqsh: ERROR: Network Authentication not supported

#63 sqsh/freetds segfaults after failure to connect

Slava K. — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:46:08 -0000

Hope you had good holidays, Martin. And now I'm also back from vacation. :)
Thanks for looking into issue I reported in the last post. Seems like it should not be hard to fix.

All the best,
Slava.

Recent changes to bugs

sqsh 2.5 configure 32/64 bit detection fails

#66 migration to git?

#67 Build fails on Fedora 30

Build fails on Fedora 30

#64 Kerberos authentication for SQL Server

migration to git?

Build Fails Against Newer Versions of FreetDS

#64 Kerberos authentication for SQL Server

Kerberos authentication for SQL Server

#63 sqsh/​freetds segfaults after failure to connect

#63 sqsh/freetds segfaults after failure to connect