Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> Hiroshi Inoue writes:
>
> > ISTM neither you nor Philip Warner would use the driver
> > in reality. I'm suspicious if --enable-odbc has a meaning
> > without the environment. We could have 3 kind of ODBC
> > drivers under unix now.
> > 1) stand-alone driver made with --enable-odbc.
> > 2) iODBC driver made with --with-iodbc.
> > 3) unixODBC driver made with --with-unixODBC.
> >
> > Because they are exclusive, it seems to have little meaning
> > to make 1) in advance. In addition it seems misleading if
> > people would regard 1) as the standard PG driver.
>
> It probably doesn't make the greatest possible sense, but it's backward
> compatible and consistent with typical configure options.
>
> Btw., to get the iODBC driver, you need both options --with-iodbc and
> --enable-odbc. If you only use the former, you get nothing at all.
> Again, this could conceivably be done differently.
--enable-odbc=standalone
--enable-odbc=iODBC
--enable-odbc=unixODBC
could be the logical way to do it ?
----------------
Hannu
