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

[Mateusz Łoskot]

On 26 October 2011 17:21, Hermann Peifer <peifer at gmx.eu> wrote:
> 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 (?)

It is there: "See also GDAL wiki for other details" leading to:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/mdbtools
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/PGeo

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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