title: npm install odbc fails on OSX and Ubuntu
body: <p>I'm having an issue install the odbc package on both OSX and Ubuntu.</p>
  
  <p>I have unixODBC installed on both machines.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the output of issuing "npm install odbc":</p>
  
  <pre><code>npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/odbc
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/odbc
  
  &gt; odbc@0.6.3 preinstall /home/notes/as400/node_modules/odbc
  &gt; node-gyp configure build
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/share/node-v0.10.26-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py", line 18, in &lt;module&gt;
      sys.exit(gyp.script_main())
  AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'script_main'
  gyp ERR! configure error 
  gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
  gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/share/node-v0.10.26-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:337:16)
  gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
  gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:797:12)
  gyp ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-12-generic
  gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/share/node-v0.10.26-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "build"
  gyp ERR! cwd /home/notes/as400/node_modules/odbc
  gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.26
  gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.2
  gyp ERR! not ok 
  npm ERR! odbc@0.6.3 preinstall: `node-gyp configure build`
  npm ERR! Exit status 1
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! Failed at the odbc@0.6.3 preinstall script.
  npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the odbc package,
  npm ERR! not with npm itself.
  npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
  npm ERR!     node-gyp configure build
  npm ERR! You can get their info via:
  npm ERR!     npm owner ls odbc
  npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
  
  npm ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-12-generic
  npm ERR! command "/usr/share/node/bin/node" "/usr/share/node/bin/npm" "install" "odbc"
  npm ERR! cwd /home/notes/as400
  npm ERR! node -v v0.10.26
  npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.3
  npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
  npm ERR!     /home/notes/as400/npm-debug.log
  npm ERR! not ok code 0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT 03/05/2014</strong>
  I installed unixODBC on my Mac using Macports without any issues.  Now when I try "npm install odbc --save", I get the following error about sql.h missing:</p>
  
  <pre><code>npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/odbc
  npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/odbc
  
  &gt; odbc@0.6.3 preinstall /Users/patrick/IdeaProjects/XTL/vouchers-paid/node_modules/odbc
  &gt; node-gyp configure build
  
    CXX(target) Release/obj.target/odbc_bindings/src/odbc.o
  In file included from ../src/odbc.cpp:25:
  ../src/odbc.h:29:10: fatal error: 'sql.h' file not found
  #include &lt;sql.h&gt;
           ^
  1 error generated.
  make: *** [Release/obj.target/odbc_bindings/src/odbc.o] Error 1
  gyp ERR! build error 
  gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
  gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:267:23)
  gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
  gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:797:12)
  gyp ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0
  gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "build"
  gyp ERR! cwd /Users/patrick/IdeaProjects/XTL/vouchers-paid/node_modules/odbc
  gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.26
  gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.10
  gyp ERR! not ok 
  npm ERR! weird error 1
  npm ERR! not ok code 0
  </code></pre>