On 02/12/2013 04:48 PM, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Armin K. wrote these words on 02/12/13 02:38 CST: >> There is none at the moment. All packages use pkg-config to get the >> CFLAGS/LDFLAGS. Archlinux does that too - --includedir --disable-iodbc >> and I appear to have used their instructions since nothing is >> overwritten on my system. > > Your suggestion works for the installation of libiodbc, thanks. > > However, I am a bit confused with the installation of the Virtuoso package. > I am just now getting around to building KDE4 for the first time. Being one > who likes to know the internals of the packages, I am being careful with the > installation of the KDE packages. Now, back to Virtuoso. > > Contrary to what you say, Virtuoso does not use pkg-config to find out the > location of the libiodbc headers. In fact, if you do not pass > --with-iodbc=/usr to configure, it uses an internal copy of the iodbc > headers located in the source tree. They probably do this because of the > conflict with the unixODBC headers. > > Furthermore, once you pass --with-iodbc=/usr to configure, you can quickly > see that it tries to use headers located in /usr/include and libs located > in /usr/lib. So, I modified the one place in the configure script to add > /iodbc to the cppflags section of the iodbc headers. Everything worked fine > and the build was successful. > > So, what this means is that Virtuoso by default uses its internal copy of > the headers (which are damn near exactly the same as the installed libiodbc > versions). So it really makes no difference in the build, and there are > only two packages (Soprano and Redland) that have Virtuoso listed as > dependencies. And Soprano uses Virtuoso only at run-time according to the > book. > > Here is what I see needs to happen in the book: > > 1) Add the stuff to libiodbc so that it doesn't conflict with unixODBC. > > 2) Change libiodbc from recommended to required in the Virtuoso instructions > as the build will fail if the libiodbc libraries are not installed. > > 3) (optional, as it appears it doesn't matter) Add a sed command to the > Virtuoso configure script to make it look in /usr/include/iodbc for the > interface headers instead of using the internal copies. > > Can we agree on this? >
Hm, you are right. On my system, only Soprano uses libiodbc. I don't have anything against your suggestions. Do as you think it's best. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
