Honestly, this NEVER worked for me. I am currently using the ODBC (EasySoft?)
driver that came with Interbase 6.5

Jason

nickcritten wrote:

> Help please! for the sake of my sanity!
>
> I am trying to get the firebird unixODBC driver working, but it is
> just not playing ball.
>
> Background:
> Fedora Core 4
> Firebird 1.0.3 installed ok and service is running
>
> I have now installed OdbcJdbc_1.2.0.69
> Installation went fine.
> Created entry [ibsql] in odbc.ini file for the DB connection.
>
> But when I run
> isql -v ibsql
>
> I get:
> [root@Sherlock FirebirdODBC]# isql -v ibsql
> [08004][unixODBC]Unable to connect to data source: library 'libgds.so'
> failed to load
> [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect
>
>
> I have now spent two days googling and playing around with this to try
> and get it working to no avail... All the fixes I can find for this
> assume that the symlinks for libgds.so do not exist, but they do exist
> on my system.
>
> I am seriously getting to the point of throwing something out of the
> window... Can anyone help please?
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Nick
> --
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> Visit http://firebird.sourceforge.net and click the Resources item
> on the main (top) menu. Try Knowledgebase and FAQ links !
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> Also search the knowledgebases at http://www.ibphoenix.com
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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