[Bug 1748508] Re: ODBC driver can't find libodbcinst.so.1.0.0 because symbolic link is missing

[ChristianEhrhardt]

Hi,
while sometimes there are links from <name>.so to <name>.<version>.so for compat reasons that is no hard requirement IMHO.

You are right - it could be added - but anything built on Ubuntu should
get the right linkage on the build.

So for example:
# ldd /usr/bin/odbcinst
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff0efee000)
        libodbcinst.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libodbcinst.so.1 (0x00007fbcaeb1f000)

Especially with latter releases having multiple sover's I think not having a default link is even better:
# ll $(dpkg -L odbcinst1debian2 | grep libodbcinst)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 Nov  7 07:12 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libodbcinst.so.1 -> libodbcinst.so.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    20 Nov  7 07:12 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libodbcinst.so.2 -> libodbcinst.so.2.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72032 Nov  7 07:12 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libodbcinst.so.2.0.0

Which "driver" are you referring to that isn't finding it?
We'd need to check why it isn't holding a working linkage info and resolve that IMHO.
incomplete until we know more about the driver to fix it.

** Changed in: unixodbc (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  ODBC driver can't find libodbcinst.so.1.0.0 because symbolic link is
  missing

Status in unixodbc package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Hello,

  I noticed that my driver couldn't find certain symbols in
  libodbcinst.so.1.0.0 because it couldn't find it. The unixODBC-dev
  package as well as unixODBC package on fedora contain this symbolic
  link as libodbcinst.so . Can the package include a symbolic link
  libodbcinst.so that points to the current version of libodbcinst.so
  shared library (libodbcinst.so.1.0.0 currently)?

  I'm currently using Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, the unixODBC package version
  is  2.2.14p2-5ubuntu3.

  Regards,
  Chris

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