[gdal-dev] Another PGeo driver issue, on 64-bit Debian Linux

[Hermann Peifer]

On 26/10/2011 18:11, Even Rouault wrote:
>
> IMHO, you can't. I've spent some time investigating this issues a few months ago
> and my conclusion was that mdbtools was too buggy (and unmaintained), and in
> particular not 64bit ready. I tried a few fixes, but finally I gave up. I've
> developped the MDB driver that relies on the Jackess Java library to workaround
> mdbtools problems and it works quite well (although not particularly fast due to
> the invokation of Java code from native code).
>

Thanks for the quick response. If you didn't get it to work, then I 
should better not have tried in the first place. Perhaps some warnings 
for Linux users should be added to http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html (?)

I'll have a look at the MBD driver.

Thanks again, Hermann