[R] RODBC fails to build

[vittorio]

yes, I read it. Nevertheless I can't make head or tail of it.
Can anyone out there help me with a step by step explanation?
Ciao
Vittorio

Alle 17:34, martedì 08 novembre 2005, Prof Brian Ripley ha scritto:
> 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