ODBC driver can't find libodbcinst.so.1.0.0 because symbolic link is missing

[Chris Hamilton]

Hello,

I noticed that my driver couldn't find certain symbols in libodbcinst.so.1.0.0 because it couldn't find it. The unixODBC-dev package as well as unixODBC package on fedora contain this symbolic link as libodbcinst.so . Can the package include a symbolic link libodbcinst.so that points to the current version of libodbcinst.so shared library (libodbcinst.so.1.0.0 currently)?

I'm currently using Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, the unixODBC package version is 2.2.14p2-5ubuntu3.

Regards,
Chris

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi,
while sometimes there are links from <name>.so to <name>.<version>.so for compat reasons that is no hard requirement IMHO.

You are right - it could be added - but anything built on Ubuntu should get the right linkage on the build.

So for example:
# ldd /usr/bin/odbcinst
        linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff0efee000)
        libodbcinst.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libodbcinst.so.1 (0x00007fbcaeb1f000)

Especially with latter releases having multiple sover's I think not having a default link is even better:
# ll $(dpkg -L odbcinst1debian2 | grep libodbcinst)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Nov 7 07:12 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libodbcinst.so.1 -> libodbcinst.so.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 7 07:12 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libodbcinst.so.2 -> libodbcinst.so.2.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72032 Nov 7 07:12 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libodbcinst.so.2.0.0

Which "driver" are you referring to that isn't finding it?
We'd need to check why it isn't holding a working linkage info and resolve that IMHO.
incomplete until we know more about the driver to fix it.

[Chris Hamilton (chrishamilton)]

Hi Christian,

The drivers in question are the Simba ODBC drivers. These are not built on Ubuntu.

Regards,
Chris

[Chris Hamilton (chrishamilton)]

Hi Christian,

We've found a work around you can close this.

Regards,
Chris