Re: unixODBC versus libiodbc: can they coexist?
Nick Gorham <[email protected]>
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ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT 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 >>>> >>> 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? > > > And what about ABI incompatibility ?? > Well AFAIK, the two driver managers do the same job, it depends on how the iodbc is build though, as it seems to be built expecting 4 byte unicode. I have swapped apps between all three driver managers in the past with general success, though it sometimes needs a bit of help from the driver. -- Nick _______________________________________________ unixODBC-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.unixodbc.org/mailman/listinfo/unixodbc-dev