[Gdal-dev] iODBC drivers for Mac OS X

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 1/10/06, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> After a test with the raw ODBC format, it looks like it's the ODBC
> driver binary.  It doesn't work with the descriptive driver name or
> the odbcinst.ini driver name.  Kinda annoying.  Is that an ODBC
> thing?

William,

I believe so.

> I would have thought that, since the drivers are defined in
> odbcinst.ini and given a name, one would use those names for the
> driver in a DSN.
>
> Would it be possible to add an option to the PGEO driver to override
> the ODBC driver, in case someone (on any platform even) doesn't use
> an Access driver with the name you have in the source (ie on
> different platforms and from different authors)?  (Or is it already
> possible? and how?)

I would be happy to support a "config" option for
overriding the name of the ODBC driver to use for MDB
files.  This could then be set via the environment or the
--config commandline switch.

Best regards,
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