[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#473517: glpk: glpsol does neither support iODBC nor MySQL

[Xypron]

Package: glpk
Version: 4.28-2
Severity: normal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-023stab046.2-enterprise
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages glpk depends on:
ii  glpk-doc                      4.28-2     linear programming kit - documenta
ii  glpk-utils                    4.28-2     linear programming kit - documenta
ii  libglpk-dev                   4.28-2     linear programming kit - developme
ii  libglpk0                      4.28-2     linear programming kit with intege

glpk recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "de_DE"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

glpsol -m /usr/share/doc/glpk-utils/examples/sql/sudoku_odbc.mod
fails with
iODBC table driver not supported

glpsol -m /usr/share/doc/glpk-utils/examples/sql/sudoku_mysql.mod
fails with
MySQL table driver not supported

These problems do not exist if GLPK 4.28 is build from the GNU source.
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glpk/glpk-4.28.tar.gz

Please, provide the missing functionality.