Re: [Iodbc-macosx] odbctest?

[Theodore H. S. <de...@el...>]

Hi Hugh,

Thanks for pointing me to the docs, I was unaware of these.

I found out that iodbctest worked fine. In fact, I had trouble with 
odbctest that was located in '/Library/Application Support/iodbc/bin' 
and the standard installed Jaguar odbctest.

I will read the documents now. Sorry for the huge volume of mail I 
sent. I still have some problems, but I'll read the docs before asking 
them.

> As I stated to you from the outset, the ODBC components Apple bundles 
> with
> their OS simply will *NOT* work with Framework based ODBC drivers, 
> thus you
> should not be linking nor testing drivers against any of their 
> components.
> If you are linking the Postgres driver you compiled against the Apple 
> ODBC
> components then this would explain why this does not work also.

Right. I actually didn't specify any linking with that open source 
Postgres driver, I just compiled it with configure;make;make install; 
So all the linking is the default specified by the makefile. 
Unfortunately makefiles and configure is something I know little about, 
I'm a CodeWarrior guy myself.

> We have been
> pro-actively trying to get Apple to resolve this issue by either 
> bundling
> the iODBC components we build and most other ODBC vendors (both 
> Application
> and Driver) in the ODBC space on the Mac use, but to date this seems 
> to be
> falling on deaf ears their for reasons unknown to us.

Probably the dilemma of the Universe. Can you imagine a perfect world? 
Most can't.

It would be nice to see Apple take ODBC seriously. Documentation, 
better support, maybe even actively working on the ODBC open source 
code. Actually, I'd like to see Apple take data base (in general) for 
the Mac seriously.

> I would strongly suggest you read some of the documentation on our WEB 
> site
> on these issues and proceed accordingly:
>
> http://www.iodbc.org/index.php?page=docs/macosodbcstory/index
> http://docs.openlinksw.com/st/osxliteconf.html
> http://support.openlinksw.com/support/mac-faq.html
> http://support.openlinksw.com/support/tutorials.vsp?c=mac

Great. I'll read these up.