[mdb-dev] FreeBSD 5.1 odbc build error

[Gerry G. <mdb...@sn...>]

Good day,
	I'm attempting to build mdbtools on a FreeBSD 5.1 system both using ports and by hand. It builds and installs fine when I don't use unixodbc or libiodbc support, but when I do a configure --with-unixodbc=/usr/local (or iodbc) it fails with the following errors:

Making all in odbc
Error expanding embedded variable.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/databases/mdbtools/work/mdbtools-0.5/src.
*** Error code 1


I have little experience with make so I've spent quite a few hours now on google looking for common causes of that error in a Makefile and there are two common resolutions.
1.) Root has . in its path. This was mostly in a thread about Freetype2. I do not use . in my path.
2.) A linux Makefile is being used on a FreeBSD system.


I've tried using the mdbtools-0.5 in ports, as well as via http download from sourceforge, and I've tried the 0.5 from CVS as well as 0.5rc2 and all had the same problem.


I appreciate any assistance or chatter on the topic. Thanks!
-gg



(by the way on the CVS version I also caught a typo in one of the .y scripts but didnt write down which one it was. Sorry. That was at about 20:00 GMT yesterday.)