FreeTDS Development Group

["Thompson, Bill D (London)" <ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com>]

Merjin,

Or you just make sure that the unixodbc/lib directory is in your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
You'll need it there anyway, at runtime.

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Merijn Broeren [SMTP:merijnb AT iloquent.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:05 PM
> To:   TDS Development Group
> Subject:      [freetds] unixodbc library pickup
> 
> Dear FreeTDS developer team,
> 
> I spent this morning getting freetds 0.60 to build on our systems here
> and it proved to be quite an interesting challenge. For some kind of
> definition of interesting that contains a lot of loud words. 
> 
> The gist of it is that if you specify --with-unixodbc this sets up the 
> -I compiler directive, but not the proper -L linker directives. This
> makes building libtdsodbc.so difficult if unixodbc is not installed in
> /usr/lib or /lib. Which on my systems is the case. 
> 
> I've made some changes to the build process to it finally compiled, but
> can I ask you guys to add something like this to the build process: 
> 
>     ODBC_LIBS=-L$with_unixodbc/lib
> 
> in configure.* and then 
> 
> libtdsodbc_la_LIBADD=   $(TDSOBJECTS) $(ODBC_LIBS) -lodbcinst
> $(NETWORK_LIBS) $(LIBICONV)
> 
> in src/odbc/Makefile.am. You'll need the proper 
> 
> AC_SUBST(ODBC_LIBS)
> 
> as well I guess, or at least $ODBC_LIBS=@ODBC_LIBS@ in strategic places. 
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Merijn Broeren | 'I want to understand everything. I want to know every-
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