[GRASSLIST:3970] Re: Yet another configure question re odbc

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:56:54AM -0600, C.S. Cornuelle wrote:
> Hi.  Hamish, this one is probably for you, judging by over older
> emails.  Sorry.  :^)
> 
> After years of waiting, I'm installing grass 5.7 on my SuSe 8.2
> machine (linux).  Having installed the postgresql package running
> the configure script for grass gives this:
>         
>       checking whether to use ODBC... yes
>       checking for location of ODBC includes...
>       checking for sql.h... yes
>       checking for location of ODBC library...
>       checking for SQLConnect in -lodbc... no
>       configure: error: *** Unable to locate ODBC library.

If you don't need ODBC, you can simply disable it.

Probably we should change
 ODBC library... -> unixODBC library...
?


> Doing find produces:
>               
>       /usr/lib/psqlodbc.la
>       /usr/lib/psqlodbc.so

This is not the right library.
You need unixODBC (see REQUIREMENTS.html file) in the source code
package.
                        
[...]
> This means that --with-odbc-libs=no is not an option for me, right?

No, it should be simply:

 --without-odbc

Regards

 Markus