I have made the couple of mods required to make the odbc driver with
postgres build and use unixODBC (http://www.unixodbc.org)

This patch was applied against the postgresql-7.0beta1 build

Any problems let me know.

Nick Gorham

configure.in

@@ -396,6 +396,48 @@ then
 fi
 AC_SUBST(ODBCINSTDIR)
 
+#check for unixODBC
+
+use_unixODBC=no
+AC_ARG_WITH(unixODBC,
+[  --with-unixODBC[=DIR]   Use unixODBC located in DIR],
+[use_unixODBC=yes;unixODBC="$withval"],use_unixODBC=no)
+
+if test "x$use_unixODBC" = "xyes"
+then
+
+# default to /usr if not specified
+if test "x$unixODBC" = "x"
+then
+    unixODBC="/usr";
+fi
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(unixODBC-includes,
+    [  --with-unixODBC-includes=DIR Find unixODBC headers in DIR],
+    unixODBC_includes="$withval",unixODBC_includes="$unixODBC/include")
+
+    AC_ARG_WITH(unixODBC-libs,
+    [  --with-unixODBC-libs=DIR Find unixODBC libraries in DIR],
+    unixODBC_libs="$withval",unixODBC_libs="$unixODBC/lib")
+
+    CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$unixODBC_includes"
+    AC_CHECK_HEADERS(sql.h sqlext.h odbcinst.h,
+        unixODBC_ok=yes;odbc_headers="$odbc_headers $ac_hdr",unixODBC_ok=no; break)
+
+if test "x$unixODBC_ok" != "xyes"
+then
+    AC_MSG_ERROR([Unable to find the unixODBC headers in $1])
+fi
+
+save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+LIBS="-L$unixODBC_libs $LIBS"
+
+AC_CHECK_LIB(odbcinst,SQLGetPrivateProfileString,
+[AC_DEFINE(HAVE_SQLGETPRIVATEPROFILESTRING)
+LIBS="$LIBS -lodbcinst"],
+[LIBS="$save_LIBS"])
+fi
+
 dnl Unless we specify the command line options
 dnl	--enable cassert	to explicitly enable it
 dnl If you do not explicitly do it, it defaults to disabled

doc/TODO

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ URGENT
 
 ADMIN
 
-* More access control over who can create tables and access the database
+* -More access control over who can create tables and use locks(Karal)
 * Test syslog functionality
 * Allow elog() to return error codes, not just messages
 * Allow international error message support and add error codes

src/include/config.h.in

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  * or in config.h afterwards.  Of course, if you edit config.h, then your
  * changes will be overwritten the next time you run configure.
  *
- * $Id: config.h.in,v 1.116 2000/06/04 15:06:32 petere Exp $
+ * $Id: config.h.in,v 1.117 2000/06/09 16:03:07 momjian Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_H
@@ -305,6 +305,9 @@
  * Block of parameters for the ODBC code.
  */
 
+/* are we building against a libodbcinst */
+#undef HAVE_SQLGETPRIVATEPROFILESTRING
+
 /* Set to 1 if you have <pwd.h> */
 #undef HAVE_PWD_H
 

src/interfaces/odbc/dlg_specific.c

@@ -23,8 +23,10 @@
 #ifndef WIN32
 #include <string.h>
 #include "gpps.h"
+#ifndef HAVE_SQLGETPRIVATEPROFILESTRING
 #define SQLGetPrivateProfileString(a,b,c,d,e,f) GetPrivateProfileString(a,b,c,d,e,f)
 #define SQLWritePrivateProfileString(a,b,c,d) WritePrivateProfileString(a,b,c,d)
+#endif
 #ifndef HAVE_STRICMP
 #define stricmp(s1,s2)	strcasecmp(s1,s2)
 #define strnicmp(s1,s2,n)	strncasecmp(s1,s2,n)

src/interfaces/odbc/misc.h

@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifndef WIN32
-#include "gpps.h"
+#ifndef HAVE_SQLGETPRIVATEPROFILESTRING
 #define SQLGetPrivateProfileString(a,b,c,d,e,f) GetPrivateProfileString(a,b,c,d,e,f)
 #endif
+#endif
 
 #include <stdio.h>