Bug#635668: possibly a better solution but still would like odbc_config binary distributed

[Martin J. Evans]

I have now spoken to Nick Gorham who maintains unixODBC. Both he and I would still like you to include the odbc_config binary in your distribution of unixODBC as it enables things like DBD::ODBC to build with the same compiler flags as unixODBC was built.

However, if you update your unixODBC distribution to 2.3.0 the problem with SQLLEN/SQLULEN will go away as on 64 bit platforms SQLLEN/SQLULEN now default to 64 bit values.

Nick also mentions that as this change effectively changes the ABI he has incremented the unixODBC version on the created shared objects (although that is not in 2.3.0 he is prepared to release it as 2.3.1 immediately if you would consider distributing it).

Lastly, 2.2.14 of unixODBC which I believe is the one distributed with debian was released Feb 23  2009 and a great deal of bugs have been fixed since then.

Martin
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