From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2efc07c562a92932 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-10!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Ketcham Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada & Postgresql Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:56:06 -0000 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1096538164.509614@yasure> References: <2prmojFo9eo1U1@uni-berlin.de> <5ad0dd8a.0409060736.42b6ab59@posting.google.com> <41558E1D.7080502@snafu.de> User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.20-29.8.progeny.8 (i686)) Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@cascadia.drizzle.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4433 Date: 2004-09-30T09:56:06+00:00 List-Id: Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > Pascal Obry wrote: >> >> On GNU/Linux Debian that's quite easy! >> >> $ apt-get install odbc-postgresql >> $ apt-get install unixodbc >> $ apt-get install unixodbc-dev > > Debian is fine for those using it. But what about *BSD, Solaris and > HP-UX users for example? The nice thing about Debian .deb packages is that they are actually just old-school "ar" archives. "ar -x", then you are left with a few regular tar.gz files and an install script (which you may wish to read, rather than run). Of course, you'd want to grab the source, rather than the binary, packages. And extracting the files is of course only the first step; whether the code is actually portable to those other platforms is a completely different question... --Benjamin