On 30 March 2021 at 01:10, Rasmus Liland wrote: | Dirk, I did not realize libiodbc[1] is an | alternative to unixODBC, how are you | able to see this?
By studing the sources and README of the package you are trying to build. | I also did not realize I had both of | them installed ... | | Uninstalling libiodbc, keeping unixODBC, | adding the flag (I only suppose this is | how the flag is added), does nothing: | | rasmus@iselin ~/src/RODBC % R CMD INSTALL RODBC --with-odbc-manager=odbc | Warning: unknown option ‘--with-odbc-manager=odbc’ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ These runs are not doing what you think they are doing. The switch applies to calling 'configure' directly (which I recommend you do for debugging). For builds from 'R CMD INSTALL ...' you need another indirection, see --help there. If I were you, I'd try to mimick what 'configure' does and compile and link a minimal C program against either of the two to demonstrate "you can". The next step then is to make 'configure' do it too, ideally without switches. Then the R package has a better-than-fair chance of installing. Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel