Re: configure --with-odbc-nodm problem...

Then the help text describing this configure option is wrong:

./configure --help

   --with-odbc-nodm=DIR    build odbc without driver manager (headers in DIR)
                                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Seb

James K. Lowden wrote:
> Enrico Coi wrote:
>> ...when running
>>
>> ./configure --with-odbc-nodm=/home/spas/Desktop/SoiFonWorkshop/
>> --prefix=/home/spas/Desktop/SoiFonWorkshop/build/ --with-tdsver=8.0
>> --host=arm
>>
>> the program configures with no errors, until I receive a "configure:
>> error: sql.h not found"... Now, as described in the user guide, I copied
>> sql.h, sqlext.h, sqltypes.h in "/home/spas/Desktop/SoiFonWorkshop/"... 
> 
> It can be a little confusing.  --with-odbc-nodm points to the place not
> where sql.h is, but where "include/sql.h" is.  That is, it still expects
> sql.h (etc.) to be in a directory named "include".  :-/
> 
> My setup is like this:
> 
> $ cat .build_options
> --config-cache
> --with-tdsver=7.0 
> --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/pkg 
> --enable-threadsafe=no
> --disable-libiconv
> --with-odbc-nodm=/usr/local
> 
> $ ls /usr/local/*/sql.h
> /usr/local/include/sql.h
> 
> (I have a little script that reads my .build_options file, so I don't have
> to remember them or keep them hard-coded in a script.)  
> 
> Autoconf is a specialty unto itself, so it's not easy to discern this from
> the sources.  For future reference, the answer is to be found in
> configure.ac:
> 
> $ grep nodm configure.ac
> ...
> if test "$with_odbc_nodm"; then
>         if echo "$with_odbc_nodm" | grep -v '^/'; then
>                 with_odbc_nodm="$PWD/$with_odbc_nodm"
>         ODBC_INC="$with_odbc_nodm/include"
> 
> and, more clearly, in config.log:
> 
> $ grep ODBC_INC build/config.log 
> ODBC_INC='-I/usr/local/include'
> 
> HTH.  
> 
> --jkl
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