> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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 ;-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080620/484634bd/attachment-0005.html>