Re: odbcinst-less configuration

Brian Bruns <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.unixodbc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks Nick!

I wasn't real sure on the correct approach but I like your solution.
I will test it tonight to make sure all is well.  Thanks for the quick
turn around.

Brian

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Nick Gorham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28/06/11 22:28, Brian Bruns wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I couldn't figure out any way to connect to a database without having
>> an odbcinst.ini entry for the driver.  iODBC allows for the DRIVER
>> attribute to specify the fullpath of the shared library file, but it
>> appears to my cursory reading of SQLDriverConnect that unixODBC does
>> not.  Attached is a patch that makes it happen.  If I'm totally
>> off-base and unixODBC does indeed allow this, please let me know.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Brian
>
> Ok, SVN head and the 2.3.1pre on the ftp site should now do what you want. I
> have done it slightly different as I didnt want to depend on a lib starting
> with '/' I can see platform and other problems coming from that. So it the
> string isn't find in the odbcinst.ini file we assume its a lib name and see
> what happens if we try and open it.
>
> --
> Nick
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