An example to patch unixODBC-2.3.0 on a 64bit machine to work with oracle 8.
First download unixODBC source. mkdir /tmp/unixODBC/source
Create two new folder. mkdir /tmp/unixODBC/patch/original mkdir /tmp/unixODBC/patch/unixODBC-2.3.0/DriverManager/
cp /tmp/unixODBC/source/unixODBC-2.3.0/DriverManager/SQLConnect.c /tmp/unixODBC/patch/original