> 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.
>
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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 ;-)