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: 1. 2. 3.
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 attachment 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 attachment 39577 [details] updated ebuild
Created attachment 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 attachment 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.
Is anyone still interested in this? If yes, please say so here and now!
Seems, no.
