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[Igor Korot <ikorot01 AT gmail.com>]

Hi, Frediano,

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 2:41 AM Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Il giorno ven 20 nov 2020 alle ore 07:37 Igor Korot <ikorot01 AT gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
>
> > Hi, (Frediano),
> > I am trying to build freeTDS latest release on OSX 10.13 with the ODBC
> > driver.
> >
> > I installed latest iODBC DM and then tried building.
> >
> > The log is below:
> >
> > [code]
> > Igors-MacBook-Air:freetds igorkorot$ ./configure --enable-odbc
> > --enable-debug --enable-odbc-wide --with-iodbc && make
> > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> > checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> > checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
> > checking for gawk... no
> > checking for mawk... no
> > checking for nawk... no
> > checking for awk... awk
> > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> > checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
> > checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
> > checking for gawk... (cached) awk
> > checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
> > checking whether ln -s works... yes
> > checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
> > checking for pkg-config... no
> >
>
> That's not expected. Weird on a new system, but maybe is just that I have
> Brew installed.

Probably.
I rather prefer to install official packages and not from HB.

Just grabbed it from iodbc.org...

>
>
> > checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0
> > checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0
> > checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
> > checking for gcc... gcc
> >
>
> ... omissis ...
>
> checking compile-time options
> > checking for IODBC... no
> > configure: error: in `/Users/igorkorot/freetds':
> > configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too
> > old.  Make sure it
> > is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full
> > path to pkg-config.
> >
>
> That is the result of not founding pkg-config previously

Correct.

>
>
> > Alternatively, you may set the environment variables IODBC_CFLAGS
> > and IODBC_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> >
>
> That's a workaround. Or you could try using --with-idobc=<directory>
> instead.

I don't know what flags that library was built with...

>
> In configure.ac:
>
>         # The user asked for iodbc support, but didn't tell us
>         # where to look. So, we'll try to get the info from
>         # pkg-config. If we can't, we'll display an error.
>         PKG_CHECK_MODULES(IODBC, libiodbc)
>
> so the configure it's behaving as expected (although it could try a bit
> harder).

... so I should use the path to libiodbc, right?

>
>
> > See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> >
> > To get pkg-config, see <http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/>.
> > See `config.log' for more details
> > Igors-MacBook-Air:freetds igorkorot$
> > [/code]
> >
> > I can successfully run the iODBC GUI.
> >
> > So what is going on?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
>
> I'll check my MacOS to see where pkg-config is and where the include files
> are.

Maybe the install is different if its downloaded from iodbc.org?

Thank you.

>
> Frediano
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