[lsb-discuss] A small test of LSB standards

Wichmann, Mats D mats.d.wichmann at intel.com
Tue Mar 27 16:43:13 UTC 2012


On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Dallman, John <john.dallman at siemens.com>wrote:

> Microsoft have produced a SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh477150(v=sql.10).aspx
>
> Currently, it runs on Red Hat Enterprise 5 and 6:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh568452(v=sql.110).aspx
>
> I have no need for this personally, but it is clearly the kind of thing
> that would obviously be more useful if it was LSB-compliant. Are any of
> the libraries it uses (documented at the second link above) not in the
> LSB?




sadly, yes, most of them.  gssapi probably would have been fine if anybody
was motivated, but the rest have various issues as I recall, openssl being
the most egregious offender at not keeping a 100% stable api (note 0.9.8e
is a number of releases old, showing how hard it is to keep up that they
needed to specify that precisely)


   -

   e2fsprogs-libs 1.39, Ext2/3 file system-specific static libraries and
   headers (provides /lib/libuuid.so.1)
   -

   Krb5-libs 1.6.1 (Kerberos shared libraries)
   -

   Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface (GSS-API)
   -

   OpenSSL (openssl-0.9.8e)
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