idealsoftwaregmbh wrote:

>>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
>>
>>
>
>Yes, this is a bug! I found it using strace... the ODBC driver is
>trying to load "IscDbc" instead of "IscDbc.so". Can anyone fix it?
>
>However, it is still not working on my side, I'm using iODBC instead
>of unixODBC. wxWindows relies on iODBC. Has anyone ever made it to use
>the driver with iODBC?
>
>I get "Invalid Connection String attribute" and then "File is not a
>valid database" error messages. Any ideas?
>
>I think the ODBC driver could ship with some docs, explaining how to
>setup odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini.
>
>I'm also having problems installing Firebird under Debian Linux. There
>are bugs in the scripts and Firebird v1.5 uses the libstdc++.so.5
>which is not available in Debian 3.0. The developers should link the
>libraries statically to avoid such problems.
>
>After all, I have the feeling the Linux version needs some more care.
>
>Thorsten
>
>
>

I found it as well. I can rebuild the tar ball to include a symlink -
and we can make a notation
to include the location you install the shared libraries in the user's
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

bill