odbc_config missing

[Enver Haase]

Binary package hint: unixodbc

The script "odbc_config" is missing in "/usr/bin".

This is especially annoying as MonetDB is not yet in Ubuntu, but you have
to build it yourself.

If you do, then obdc_config is not found. MonetDB will finish building, but
the resulting MonetDB system always fails with a message saying that the
client did not specify a database.

Also see -- seems the problem was not addressed back then?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=499123

Kind Regards,
Enver

[Breno Leitão (breno-leitao)]

I just tried with a patch as simple as the following and it worked fine:

--- debian/unixodbc-dev.install.old 2015-08-26 14:30:49.871058695 -0400
+++ debian/unixodbc-dev.install 2015-08-26 14:31:13.927645420 -0400
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ usr/lib/*/libodbc.a
 usr/lib/*/libodbccr.a
 usr/lib/*/libodbcinst.a
 usr/include/*
+usr/bin/odbc_config

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Debian fixed this by installing the pkg-config files:
 unixodbc (2.3.6-0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
    - Install pkg-config files (Closes: #422207).

We should do a merge in cosmic, and check if that can be backported to older ubuntu releases.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Confirmed by running MonetDB's ./configure that unixodbc 2.3.6-0.1 or later (in cosmic and later) is fine:
...
checking odbcinst.h usability... yes
checking odbcinst.h presence... yes
checking for odbcinst.h... yes
checking for SQLGetPrivateProfileString in -lodbcinst... yes
checking for SQLGetDiagRec in -lodbc... yes
checking checking whether SQLColAttribute uses SQLLEN * or SQLPOINTER... using "SQLLEN *"
checking size of SQLWCHAR... 2
...
ubuntu@cosmic-unixodbc:~/MonetDB-11.31.11$ apt-cache policy unixodbc-dev
unixodbc-dev:
  Installed: 2.3.6-0.1
  Candidate: 2.3.6-0.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.3.6-0.1 500
        500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/main amd64 Packages

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

FYI 2.3.6-0.1build1 is in Disco and later, so the status is now fix released.