Re: 8.0.1 and the ODBC driver

My hypotesis is, that the automake information is not needed in the
tar archive at all. If it is needed, it is better to use the
CVS stuff as such.

Maybe it would be good to separate the build information
into two README files in the CVS:

README.first (in CVS, build instructions from CVS)
README.unix (in CVS and tar archive, build instructions from the tar
archive)

README.first would contain the CVS archive build instructions:
* Prerequisites
* Bootstrapping
* "See README.unix for further instructions."
With these you are able to build the ./configure script.

README.unix would contain the normal build instructions:
* Building
./configure
make
make install

So, then the tar archive would contain only
the README.unix file.

In that way the source tar archive users would
get the correct and needed information.

The configure script makes the process of configuring and compiling
easy. Why to make it hard by giving too much
or confusing information?

This is fast to fix, and fixing has a very low risk, but helps a lot
the tar archive users, that compile the psqlodbc by the first time.

I mean those, who do not know the psqlodbc building process
beforehand.

Marko Ristola

Script Head wrote:

>>The ODBC driver and the PostgreSQL server are completely separate
>>packages to download and install. If you find documentation to the
>>contrary, please tell us so we can remove the confusion.
>>
>>
>
>It seems my confution has been caused by a type in README.unix in
>psqlodbc-08.00.0101. The sentence reads:
>
>"Since psqlODBC has be moved from the main PostgreSQL source tree, we have yet
>to create a new build system for the driver."
>
>I belive it has to read:
>
>"Since psqlODBC has been moved out of the main PostgreSQL source tree,
>we have yet
>to create a new build system for the driver."
>
>Further, the very same file continues to reference to an older version
>of the driver, which can also cause confusion as at this point the
>person isn't sure which version of the driver they are working with. I
>belive the section that follows should be:
>
>To install, just try something like:
>
>% tar -zxvf psqlodbc-x.y.z.tar.gz
>% cd postgresql-x.y.z
>% ./configure
>% make
>% make install
>
>where x.y.z is the version of the driver.
>
>On a side note it'd be useful to add an ODBC related subchapter to the
>8.0.1 installation instructions (chapter 14) and explain that the
>driver has been moved out of the source tree. I spent quite some time
>trying to figure that out.
>
>Sincerely,
>ScriptHead
>
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