First: you have to install either unixodbc, either iodbc libraries - and also development packages for them. I've chose the unixodbc.
On RHEL you can found the unixodbc and unixodbc-dev rpms in the "Server" folder of the same disk - and installed these libraries.

Then I have taken the sphinx sources and build it with:

./configure --prefix=/home/sm/ ( Read more... )