https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65830

--- Comment #42 from Lionel Elie Mamane <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Beluga from comment #41)
> (In reply to Lionel Elie Mamane from comment #40)

>> Also, it seems unusual to me that the
>> "Setup = " line maps to unixodbc's libodbcinst.so instead of a myodbc .so
>> file; my entry has "Setup=libodbcmyS.so"; that's on Debian GNU/Linux FWIW.

> I don't have any libodbcmyS.so in /usr/lib64 or anywhere in this system.

The name confused me... On my system libodbcmyS.so is part of unixodbc, not
myodbc, so I was wrong, and this part of your setup is plausible.

>> This sounds like LibreOffice is compiled for a different libodbc than what
>> you have... Usually, when the .so has a different name, it means it is an
>> incompatible version, and simply linking one to the other WILL NOT WORK (or
>> can seem to work, but lead to crashes, data corruption, etc).

> I found this: http://www.unixodbc.org/
> 28.Nov.2011   2.3.1 Released

> Mainly bug fixes.
> Major change is to change the library version number from 1 to 2 to signal
> the SQLLEN change for 64 land. Should have been done for 2.3.0, but better
> late than never. So if after installing you have apps that can't find
> libodbc.so, its likely they are linked to libodbc.so.1, so just create a
> symlink from libodbc.so.2 
> ----------

> Based on that official suggestion to symlink, there seems to be no danger.

OK. <shrug>

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