[unixODBC-dev] unixODBC versus libiodbc: can they coexist?

[Nick Gorham]

Peter Harvey wrote:
> On Friday 05 June 2009 10:05:45 am Nick Gorham wrote:
>   
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>     
>>> A long time ago (apparently before 2000) somebody put "Conflicts: iodbc"
>>> into the Red Hat/Fedora specfile for unixODBC.  This indicates that the
>>> two packages are so incompatible it's not even safe to install them
>>> together.  I'm being asked why that is, and I have no idea.  Can anyone
>>> comment on whether such a restriction is really needed?
>>>
>>> 			regards, tom lane
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>> Well, the only possible problem I can see is that iODBC also installs a
>> libodbc.so and a libodbcinst.so
>>     
>
> Hmmm - what about the contents of the ini files being slightly different?
>
> --
> Peter
>
>   
Yes, thats a point as well, but I think we read iodbc style ini files 
ok, not sure about the other way round though.

-- 
Nick