Re: unixODBC versus libiodbc: can they coexist?
Nick Gorham <[email protected]>
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Peter Harvey wrote: > On Friday 05 June 2009 10:05:45 am Nick Gorham wrote: > >> Tom Lane wrote: >> >>> A long time ago (apparently before 2000) somebody put "Conflicts: iodbc" >>> into the Red Hat/Fedora specfile for unixODBC. This indicates that the >>> two packages are so incompatible it's not even safe to install them >>> together. I'm being asked why that is, and I have no idea. Can anyone >>> comment on whether such a restriction is really needed? >>> >>> regards, tom lane >>> _______________________________________________ >>> unixODBC-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mailman.unixodbc.org/mailman/listinfo/unixodbc-dev >>> >> Well, the only possible problem I can see is that iODBC also installs a >> libodbc.so and a libodbcinst.so >> > > Hmmm - what about the contents of the ini files being slightly different? > > -- > Peter > > Yes, thats a point as well, but I think we read iodbc style ini files ok, not sure about the other way round though. -- Nick _______________________________________________ unixODBC-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.unixodbc.org/mailman/listinfo/unixodbc-dev