Build Notes Due to problems building the lastest version 2.2.14 on AIX, had to Download from ftp://ftp.unixodbc.org/pub/unixODBC/ unixODBC-2.2.15pre.tar gunzip tar -xvf 'cd' to the directory containing the package's source code export CC=xlc_r export CCC=xlC_r ./configure --enable-gui=no --enable-drivers=no --enable-iconv=no --sysconfdir=/etc make make install The .a files in the lib need to converted into .so files using ar found in binutils: cd /usr/local/lib /opt/freeware/bin/ar -x libodbc.a /opt/freeware/bin/ar -x libodbccr.a /opt/freeware/bin/ar -x libodbcinst.a Create the tar and gz files: cd /tmp mkdir -p /tmp/odbc cd /tmp/odbc mkdir -p etc mkdir usr/local/bin mkdir usr/local/lib cp /etc/o*ini etc/. cp /usr/local/lib/libodbc*[a1] usr/local/lib/. cp /usr/local/bin/*sql usr/local/bin/. cp /usr/local/bin/odbc* usr/local/bin/. cp /usr/local/bin/dltest usr/local/bin/. tar -cvf ../unixODBC-2.2.15pre-aix-ppc.tar * cd .. gzip unixODBC-2.2.15pre-aix-ppc.tar Copy the gz file to the SOURCES directory. cp unixODBC-2.2.15pre-aix-ppc.tar /opt/freeware/src/packages/SOURCES Remove any old RPMs rm -f /opt/freeware/src/packages/SRPMS/unixODBC*rpm /opt/freeware/src/packages/RPMS/ppc/unixODBC*rpm Use the spec file provided to build the RPM. (The spec file specifies this particular unixODBC gz file, so it will have to be modified if you want to use a different version etc. rpm -ba unixODBC.spec Creates: /opt/freeware/src/packages/RPMS/ppc/unixODBC-2.2.15-pre.aix5.3.ppc.rpm