Hello Hugh, thank you very much for your response.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 4:59 AM Hugh McMaster <hugh.mcmas...@outlook.com> wrote: > > Control: -1 wontfix > > Hi Andreas, > > Sorry for the delayed reply. I've just returned from a 2-week vacation. > > On 25/03/2025 8:52 am, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > > Package: unixodbc > > Version: 2.3.12-2 > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear maintainer, > > > > I got a bug filed[1] in Ubuntu saying that the odbc_config tool is > > missing from the packaging. It seems that's on purpose, because since > > 2.3.9-1 this tool is even listed in d/not-installed. I checked a bit > > more history but couldn't find a reason. Incidentally, "make install" > > installs it just fine in /usr/bin. > > Debian never packaged odbc_config because the script got several things > wrong. See #422207 [1] for more details. > > odbc_config is also incompatible with Debian's multi-arch support, as it > only supports the host architecture. > > > This is trivial to fix, and I'm happy to provide a patch, but first I > > would like to check with you if this was indeed on purpose, or just an > > oversight. > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unixodbc/+bug/2103828> > Anyone wanting to link with the odbc, odbccr or odbcinst libraries > should use pkg-config to get the headers and libraries as required. > > Packaging the script would also break multi-arch support. > > Here is a minimal example using cmake: > > cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.31) > project(unixodbc_test) > include(FindPkgConfig) > pkg_check_modules(ODBC REQUIRED odbc) I'll relay this back into the ubuntu bug, and advise we won't be changing this then. Thanks again for your kind response.
