Thread: Bug #799: configure does not check for -lodbcinst

Steven Taschuk (staschuk@telusplanet.net) reports a bug with a severity of 3
The lower the number the more severe it is.

Short Description
configure does not check for -lodbcinst

Long Description
When configure is run with
    ./configure --enable-odbc --with-unixodbc
it does not verify that -lodbcinst works.  The absence of this
library (or misarranged symbolic links, etc.) is not detected
until relatively far into the build, when the ODBC driver is
actually compiled.  Better, imho, to check at configure time
so the user can fix the problem without investing time in a
build process which will fail.

To the extent that this is a reasonable complaint, I suspect
that it also applies, mutatis mutandis, to --with-iodbc.

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> When configure is run with
>     ./configure --enable-odbc --with-unixodbc
> it does not verify that -lodbcinst works.  The absence of this
> library (or misarranged symbolic links, etc.) is not detected
> until relatively far into the build, when the ODBC driver is
> actually compiled.  Better, imho, to check at configure time
> so the user can fix the problem without investing time in a
> build process which will fail.

It is not the job of the configure script to predict inevitable build
failures.  If we did that then it would take a lot longer to run it than
just starting the build and seeing it fail.  Moreover, note that you can
just install the missing library and continue the build were it stopped.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net