On Tuesday, March 22, 2011 4:20:06 pm Alex Dupre wrote: > John Baldwin ha scritto: > > This would appear to no longer be a supported use case in for 8.2 packages > > (and if you believe posts on the forums, 8.1 was equally broken). Namely, > > some package the GNOME depends on wants to use unixODBC, and some other > > package that KDE depends on wants to use libiodbc. The simplest suggestion > > in > > the forums appears to be to change the gnome package (devel/ptlib26) to use > > libiodbc instead. > > Even if it could be simpler (is it?), I think unixODBC is a more common > choice these days, so changing the KDE ports could be better. > > A few stats: > - ports supporting both unixODBC and iODBC: 17 > - ports supporting only unixODBC: 29 > - ports supporting only iODBC: 8 > > I don't have personal experience, but the two ports should be completely > interchangeable, so we could add support for USE_ODBC in > bsd.databases.mk and allow the user to choose the odbc implementation > (with one [unixODBC?] as default to create consistent packages).
I'll defer judgement as to which approach is best. I'll just be happy so long as it is fixed in some fashion. A USE_ODBC= knob sounds sensible to me. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
