Subject Re: [firebird-support] odbc setup on linux ...
Author Yves Glodt
On Monday 15 December 2003 04:33, Bill Katelis wrote:
> Yves Glodt wrote:
> >On Friday 12 December 2003 05:16, Bill Katelis wrote:
> >
> >
> >Extract them to a directory (e.g. /usr/lib/odbc/ in debian), and
> > edit the odbc configuration files in /etc.
> >
> >
> >
> >If you use the ODBCConfig utility, you can set it up all
> > graphically, as in windoze ;)
> >
> >regards,
> >Yves
> >
> >>thanks
> >>bill
>
> Thankyou Yves.
>
> Done all that but still have an issue with the following unixODBC
> error message when testing the generic unixODBC isql utility:
>
> Namely:
> [unixODBC]Unable to connect to data source: library 'IscDbc' failed
> to load: IscDbc: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect
>
> Yet - IscDbc.so is stored in /usr/lib/odbc.
> Is there an environment variable I need to set so it knows where to
> look for it ?

Yes your are right, there is something missing...
Create a symlink, in my case it had to be in /usr/lib:

cd /usr/lib
ln -s IscDbc odbc/IscDbc.so

that should be all you need,
Yves

> thanks
> bill
>
>
>
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