Bug #29964 Registering as sudo on Mac OS X 10.4 registers in "User", not "System"

• Submitted: 22 Jul 2007 21:53
• Modified: 26 Jul 2007 16:26
• Reporter: Kent Boortz
• Status: Closed
• Category: Connector/ODBC
• Severity: S2 (Serious)
• Version: 3.51.17
• OS: Mac OS X
• Assigned to: Jim Winstead

[22 Jul 2007 21:53] Kent Boortz

Description:
Running "myodbc3i" as sudo to register the driver, will
write into "~/Library/ODBC/odbcinst.ini", not the expected
"/Library/ODBC/odbcinst.ini".

How to repeat:
Download the Mac OS X TAR package, make sure
that /Library/ODBC/ and ~/Library/ODBC/ are empty,
and run

  sudo myodbc3i -a -d -t"MySQL ODBC 3.51
Driver;Driver=/usr/local/lib/libmyodbc3.so;Setup=/usr/local/lib/libmyodbc3S.so;"

Suggested fix:
Introduce the option to install into "system" space

[23 Jul 2007 20:43] Kent Boortz

Addition of -ds and -du for System/User registering

Attachment: ds-opt.patch (application/octet-stream, text), 1.10 KiB.

[26 Jul 2007 16:26] MC Brown

A note has been added to the 3.51.18 changelog: 

ixed an issue where the myodbc3i would update the the user ODBC configuration file
(~/Library/ODBC/odbcinst.ini) instead of the system /Library/ODBC/odbcinst.ini.