[mdb-dev] "Error expanding embedded variable" making all in odbc

[Dale S. <dal...@sh...>]

Hi, I'm stuck trying to compile the mdbtools ODBC driver manager from the
github master branch (downloaded as a gz.tar yesterday) on a FreeBSD 7.3
system. I did some experimenting with the 0.5 release in the FreeBSD ports,
but need ODBC. It seems development moved to Github from Sourceforge several
years ago, and it seemed a good idea to use the latest and greatest rather
than trying to get the 0.6pre1 release from Sourceforge working (which
reports seemed to indicate I would still need to update from CVS). So, using
the github download and following INSTALL:

 

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stumbo# ./autogen.sh

. <snip, no errors or warnings>

Now type `make' to compile MDBTools.

stumbo# ./configure --with-unixodbc=/usr/local

. <snip, no errors or warnings>

stumbo# make

Making all in src

Making all in libmdb

. <snip, no errors or warnings>

Making all in odbc

Error expanding embedded variable.

*** Error code 1

 

Stop in /usr/home/dev/temp/brianb-mdbtools-ff251e7/src.

*** Error code 1

 

Stop in /usr/home/dev/temp/brianb-mdbtools-ff251e7.

stumbo#

 

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>From a FreeBSD problem report discussing trying to get the ODBC driver
compiled with the 0.5 release and recommending moving to 0.6pre1
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=85586
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=85586&cat> &cat=), it seems this
may be a known problem at least on FreeBSD systems. I'm hoping it's an
obvious one though, with an equally obvious solution, as I'm pretty much
still a noob at nix systems programming.

 

My system configuration is pretty much vanilla FreeBSD 7.3:

 

stumbo# uname -a

FreeBSD stumbo.ghostlytrio.local 7.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE #0: Sun Mar
21 06:15:01 UTC 2010
ro...@wa...:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

stumbo# pkg_info | grep libtool

libtool-2.2.6b      Generic shared library support script

stumbo# pkg_info | grep automake

automake-1.10.1     GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.10)

automake-wrapper-20071109 Wrapper script for GNU automake

stumbo# pkg_info | grep autoconf

autoconf-2.62       Automatically configure source code on many Un*x
platforms

autoconf-wrapper-20071109 Wrapper script for GNU autoconf

stumbo#

 

Can anyone offer a pithy and quick solution?

 

Thanks,
Dale