Bugzilla Bug 59287

MaxDB only offers an ODBC driver for Linux, and even though i got unixODBC
installed, i still need DBD-ODBC to access the database from Perl ;-)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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What is this DBD-ODBC? Where can I find info on it/download it?

http://search.cpan.org/~jurl/DBD-ODBC-1.09/

It's a database-driver for perl and can be linked against unixODBC or iODBC as far as i know.

just compiled DBD-ODBC 1.09 against unixODBC simply by doing
  perl Makefile.PL -o /usr/
  make

make test seems quite useless to me, since you must have a running database and odbc-driver for the tests to work.

Created an attachment (id=37086) [details]
ebuild for DBD-ODBC 1.09

Here's an ebuild for DBD-ODBC 1.09. Compiles fine, but haven't testes the
result yet.

Created an attachment (id=39577) [details]
updated ebuild

Created an attachment (id=151688) [details]
updated ebuild 

Would be nice to see this in portage tree. I need this at my work to run perl
script that connects to MS SQL server, so if you don't have time or interest in
maintaining it, i can take this.

(In reply to comment #7)

Well, someone voted this bug to be part of bugday old as it is. I mentioned it
there, and so here's my $0.02USD FWIW. ;-) 

> Would be nice to see this in portage tree.

I'd suggest, OTOH, that it's bad *NOT* to have this in the portage 'gentoo'
tree. IOW, it's an oversight that needed to be addressed years ago, IMO...
FWIW, and all 'o that.

> I need this at my work to run perl
> script that connects to MS SQL server, 

Yes. It should, further, be maintained so that it builds and executes cleanly
"out of the box" with FreeTDS and unixODBC for MSSQL -- I mean it shouldn't
only be tested against "commercial" ODBC bridge offerings... but rather made to
work against free libs.

> so if you don't have time or interest in
> maintaining it, i can take this.
> 

Please take this on... (I personally don't use it anymore, but I did help
getting some bugs nailed along the way with folks making the DBI hooks in
DBIx::Class... and like that. MSSQL is very quirky... as is ODBC.) I'd like to
see DBD::ODBC supported, overall though. I'd be willing to test against other
bridges, like to postgres or even mysql.

I would mention that 'tove', for example, is/was very active in perl
maintenance overall, but aside from that there is, *afaik*, no one in the herd,
proper.

I recall there were always linking issues with this stuff on my systems using a
minimal ebuild like attached. I "solved" with setting some object for
LD_PRELOAD... maybe you never see it if you don't use unixODBC and FreeTDS. At
any rate, you can also ping <mykhyggz> or mail me if you think I might help
with what I found.

Created an attachment (id=222757) [details]
DBD-ODBC-1.23.2.ebuild

Here is another ebuild to get started with, I don,t use the program so there is
still work to do.