[GRASSLIST:3776] Re: unable to initialize GDAL bridge

[Glynn Clements]

Grant Yip wrote:

> >Odd. What does the Makefile look like?
> 
> Actually, it wouldn't make it past './configure'.  the program goes through 
> a series of 'checking for...' messages and stops at the following message 
> 'configure: error: ***Unable to locate ODBC library' at which time it jumps 
> to the command prompt.  I cannot go any further at this point and cannot 
> enter the make or make install commands..
> 
> I have the required libraries listed on the GRASS REQUIREMENTS page, 
> including unixodbc2, which I guess is the ODBC library the program cannot 
> find.  Do you have any suggestions for getting around this error so that I 
> can compile from source?

Use --without-odbc to disable the ODBC checks and the programs which
use ODBC (none of which are particularly important).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>