[R] RODBC fails to build

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Did you read the package's README?  It contains two ways to set these 
paths.

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Vittorio wrote:

> Context:Pentium 4, FreeBSD 5.4, R 2.2.0
>
> I updated the extra packages I
> had downloaded but the upgrading of RODBC failed complaining:
>
> checking
> for unistd.h... yes
> checking sql.h usability... no
> checking sql.h
> presence... no
> checking for sql.h... no
> checking sqlext.h usability...
> no
> checking sqlext.h presence... no
> checking for sqlext.h... no
> configure: error: "ODBC headers sql.h and sqlext.h not found"
> ERROR:
> configuration failed for package 'RODBC'
>
> The two header files are
> present in my box under /usr/local/include; I tried to symlink them to
> /usr/include and to /usr/local/lib/R/include to no avail.
>
> Please help.
>
> Vittorio

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