[GRASSLIST:3973] Re: Yet another configure question re odbc

This fixed the problem:

        sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libodbc.so.1 /usr/lib/libodbc.so

Thanks for all the hints and clues.  :^)

Thus spake Hamish (hamish_nospam@xxxxxxxxx):

> > Hi.  Hamish, this one is probably for you, judging by over older
> > emails.
> 
> mmm, maybe not. I don't know much about SuSE or databases.
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> look at the end of config.log for the missing library name / error.
> 
> 
> > Doing find produces:
> >             
> >     /usr/lib/psqlodbc.la
> >     /usr/lib/psqlodbc.so
> 
> 
> Try looking for /usr/lib/libodbc.so
> I have no idea which SuSE package supplies this.
> 
>        
> > However this lib should of course be searched automatically, and
> > explicitly including it on the command line for configure does not
> > help.  And of course one email claimed that in order to get postgresql
> > and grass to communicate one does not need an odbc.  I would like them
> > to talk, so any advice you could give would be appreciated.
> > 
> > This means that --with-odbc-libs=no is not an option for me, right?
> 
> no idea.
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 

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