Re: [mdb-dev] NUMERIC / DECIMAL fields

[Chris C. <cc...@fi...>]

Hi Jakob,

On 09/04/11 02:07 AM, Jakob Egger wrote:
 > Dear Chris,
 > Are you really sure that you are using the patched version of MDB
 > Tools? Maybe you have some library issues: it could be that you still
 > have an old version of libmdb somewhere, and that mdb-export
 > dynamically links against that old version. Maybe you need to type
 > "make install" to install the new library after compiling? (Note: I
 > use my custom build script for libmdb, so I'm not sure how you're
 > supposed to compile mdb tools)
 >
 > for debugging, try "which mdb-export" to make sure you are calling
 > the newly compiled version of mdb-export. then try
 > "ldd /usr/bin/mdb-export" to find out against which libmdb it is
 > linked. Then check the linked "libmdb" file's creation date.

The problem was indeed the libraries - I'm using a Debian system at 
work, and they've split the mdb-tools package into many pieces 
(mdbtools, mdbtools-dev, libmdbtools, libmdbodbc). I had removed the 
packaged version of mdbtools but didn't remove libmdbtools.

After having cleaned out the packaged library files, all the data files 
are interpreted correctly. Thanks again!

I use Slackware at home and generally don't have to deal with issues 
like this, since Slackware tends to package everything together (or you 
just build it yourself anyway).

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Chris Craig
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