From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2001-08-24T21:29:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20280] ODBC under Debian Linux

Has anyone successfully compiled ruby-odbc under Debian (woody)?  I
downloaded all the ODBC packages I could find in the distribution and
still get after a make:

gcc -fPIC -g -O2 -fPIC  -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-linux -I/usr/include -DHAVE_SQL_H -DHAVE_SQLEXT_H   -c -o odbc.o odbc.c
odbc.c:40: #error Missing include: odbcinst.h
odbc.c:3956: macro `O_CONST' used with too many (2) args
odbc.c:3957: macro `O_CONST' used with too many (2) args
odbc.c:3958: macro `O_CONST' used with too many (2) args
make: *** [odbc.o] Error 1

What must be there that contains odbcinst.h?

Alternatively, is there any other way to uniformly access SQL
databases?  I am currently using Postgres but I'd like my code not to
be tied to a single database.

Massimiliano