On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:23:14 +0100,
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>
> On 2024/11/18 18:17, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> > ports@, Volker,
> >
> > To make using of net/ejabberd better, we need a support of ODBC at erlang.
> >
> > Here a diff which enables ODBC support, and new port databases/unixodbc
> > which is required by erlang. To avoid conflict with databases/iodbc I
> > installed headers into include/unixodbc.
>
> This needs some thought / checking of logs, other ports are likely to
> pick up unixODBC if present during build. (also IIRC some other ports
> required patching etc to use iodbc in the first place and are probably
> happier with unixODBC..)
>

Well, I think we need to move headers from databases/iodbc into
/usr/local/include/iodbc to avoid piking a wrong library for used headers.

Probably that need to be done with switching some ports into unixodbc, but
it is the next step.

>
> : share/examples/unixodbc/
> : share/examples/unixodbc/odbc.ini
> : @sample ${SYSCONFDIR}/odbc.ini
> : share/examples/unixodbc/odbcinst.ini
> : @sample ${SYSCONFDIR}/odbcinst.ini
>
> possibly slightly confusing to have those direct in /etc but the
> headers in a subdir, and the other way round for iodbc, I think
> ${SYSCONFDIR}/unixodbc or ${SYSCONFDIR}/unixODBC might be better.
>

Indeed, it make things clenaer, indeed.

So, here an updated databases/unixodbc which doesn't build libltdl.

--
wbr, Kirill

• unixodbc.tgz (6K)