Dear database package maintainers and forge developers,
I detected this bug when running a database package install on Open Suse
(stable/latest updates - ia64) and Ubuntu (8.10 and Jaunty alpha 5 - i388).
This happens with Octave 3.0.0, 3.0.1 and 3.0.4.
"octave:7> pkg install database-1.0.1.tar.gz
mysql_wrap.cpp: In function ‘octave_value_list
_wrap_mysql_odbc_escape_string(const octave_value_list&, int)’:
mysql_wrap.cpp:14561: error: ‘mysql_odbc_escape_string’ was not declared in
this scope
make: *** [mysql.oct] Error 1
error: 'make' returned the following error: make: Entering directory
`/tmp/oct-ng4uDk/database-1.0.1/src'
CXXFLAGS="-g" mkoctfile -DHAVE_OCTAVE_30 -v -o mysql.oct -lmysqlclient
mysql_wrap.cpp
g++ -c -fPIC -I/usr/include/octave-3.0.4 -I/usr/include/octave-3.0.4/octave
-mieee-fp -g -DHAVE_OCTAVE_30 mysql_wrap.cpp -o mysql_wrap.o
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-ng4uDk/database-1.0.1/src'
error: called from `pkg:configure_make' in file
/usr/share/octave/3.0.4/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1248, column 2"
That problem seems to be related to libmyodbc (mysql_wrap.cpp:14561) and
this update from MySQL:
"The mysql_odbc_escape_string() C API function has been removed. It has
multi-byte character escaping issues, doesn't honor the NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES
SQL mode and is not needed anymore by Connector/ODBC as of 3.51.17.
(Bug#29592)"
Perhaps ubuntus/suse/debian distros included this update without altering
the version number to from 3.51.15 to 3.51.17. I tried running the same
install with libmyodbc 3.51.17 (downloaded from mysql.com)... ..still no
luck. Not sure if the database package or swig will need a patch to deal
with mysql_odbc_escape_string?
* http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libmyodbc (libmyodbc 3.51.15)
* http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?37,243625,243982#msg-243982 (with
libmyodbc 3.51.17)
Workarounds would be appreciated?
Kind regards
/Anders Hall
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