This file details Linux specific issues installing and using the
Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge (OOB).

Client-only Installation
========================

If you have only installed the client side of the OOB then you may
have to add a path to your dynamic linker configuration file
/etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. This is because the installation is
divided into any_user client install and root user server install.
Usually only root can add entries to the /etc/ld.co.conf file. You
need to add <installation_path>/easysoft/oob/client and
<installation_path>/easysoft/oob/client/lib. Do not forget to run
ldconfig after changing /etc/ld.so.conf.

C Runtime Libraries
===================

In Linux there are two very different runtime C libraries in common
use, libc5 and the GNU glibc (also known as libc6).

Easysoft support all libc5 systems from libc.so.5.4.46 with the OOB
libc5 distribution.

There are currently a number of different and incompatible versions of
glibc in common use. This has presented Easysoft with a number of
problems in supporting these different versions and so we have fixed
our distribution on one particular version of glibc. This is glibc
2.0.n (n=6 or 7). In the future we may provide glibc 2.1.n or newer
versions of the OOB but this will partly depend on demand and partly
on glibc development. If you are have an incompatible glibc and would
like a distribution of the OOB then please mail letting us know at
support@easysoft.com.


