Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 11:25 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: 

> Hi :)
> After 1 person has built it for their system can the built package be uploaded somewhere for 
> other people to use?  If so could it be uploaded to the new LO Extensions&templates site?  
>
> How generic are builds?  Would it cover the entire family (Ubuntu, Mint, Trisquel etc), just 
> Debian, one particular release of Debian, or just the specific machine?
> Regards from
> Tom :)

In theory, the builds should be very generic. The problem is when a
downtsream distro tweaks the package to "make it better or more
suitable" for some reason. It is possible, then, for the build to have
new dependencies that are not in the upstream version. For example
Ubuntu is derived from Debian but it has some tweaks that do not allow
for total compatibility with Debian upstream repositories. 

> --- On Tue, 20/9/11, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native Connector
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 10:42
>
> Le 20/09/11 08:10, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> > Hi Snip,
> > I suppose the fact that I use Debian-Wheezy (next after Squeeze) on a
> > 32-bit system might be the reason. Seeing as I don't really have the
> > time to do more research I suppose I will just have to live with
> > ODBC (or even JDBC  :() till somebody comes up with a solution.
> > Regards

Try the OOo extension, it seems to work will with 3.3.x and 3.4.x in
Ubuntu without any modifications. I have both versions downloaded for
Linux. I can email them to you off list. 

> The solution is to rebuild the connector for all combinations of OS/arch
> from source. That is how I got my Mac OSX version of the connector
> running. None of the devs at LO are building the connector, it is an
> option in the configure switch that must be activated specifically.
> Possibly, and I say just possibly, the Linux distribs will rebuild it
> with their next updates to LO, but I have no idea who deals with that on
> each distrib. Same goes for Windows (32/64). If no one complains about
> that to the Linux port distrib maintainers, then nothing will get done,
> that's for sure.
>
> Additionally, if no one complains about it on the developer list here,
> or opens a bug report for it, then nothing will happen either. Even if
> someone complains about it, you might well get an answer back of the ilk
> "the source is available, build it yourself", which granted, is not
> particularly useful/helpful when one is a mere "consumer" of the product.
>
>
>
> Alex
>
>
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