From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On
Behalf Of Nigel Kendrick
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 9:25 AM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] mdbtools on CentOS
Morning everyone,
I was hoping to use mdbtools to extract data from some Access databases
overnight. I have yum installed the tools from Dag and also downloaded and (eventually!) compiled the latest
release from the mdbtools web site, but I either get 'buffer overflow'
errors or no output from most of the tools. I have been trying to cvs checkout the latest development version but
sourceforge's cvs login keeps timing out.
[Snip]
OK - managed to login to CVS at last and download the latest development version.
A straight configure/make created tools that ran, but generated no output. I re-did the configure with some suggested options (below) and it works!!!
./configure --enable-sql --with-unixodbc=/usr/local
It seems these options are needed even though I am accessing the mdb file directly off disk and not via odbc or SQL
Thanks to all who were just about to chip in with suggestions ;-)