1Building unixODBC on Solaris
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3
4This should just work, however I have had the following helpfull
5hints sent to me by David Brown of Starquest. The suggested change
6has been made to the code in __info.c
7
8"Last fall, I had problems running on Solaris 7, because my system did have
9an iconv conversion between ISO8859-1 and UCS-2.
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11I discovered two things:
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13* the missing iconv tables are available by a patch for Solaris 7 (there is
14also a corresponding patch for Solaris 8, that fixes a lot in this area -
15seems recommended to use that as well)
16
17* Solaris uses the name 8859-1 in its tables rather than ISO8859-1 or
18ISO-8859-1.
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20
21So what I've done is:
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231) make the following change to DriverManager/__info.c:
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25diff __info.c __info.c.orig
26385c385
27<     char *asc[] = { "char", "ISO8859-1", "ISO-8859-1", "8859-1", "ASCII", NULL
28 };
29 ---
30
31 >>     char *asc[] = { "char", "ISO8859-1", "ISO-8859-1", "ASCII", NULL };
32
33 2) tell customers to apply the following Solaris patches:
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35 Solaris 7:
36 Patch-ID# 112689-02
37 Keywords: UTF-8 ICONV
38 Synopsis: SunOS 5.7: UTF-8 locale ICONV patch
39 Date: Aug/28/2002
40
41 Solaris 8:
42 Patch-ID# 113261-01
43 Keywords: UTF-8 ICONV
44 Synopsis: SunOS 5.8: UTF-8 locale ICONV patch
45 Date: Oct/11/2002
46
47 this has since been superceded by 11326-02, but I think unixODBC should
48 function fine with 113261-01
49
50 Patch-ID# 113261-02
51 Keywords: UTF-8 ICONV
52 Synopsis: SunOS 5.8: UTF-8 locale ICONV patch
53 Date: Feb/21/2003"
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