Re: autogen error compiling current version

Yes, I suspect libtool comments are outdated for freedsb. If you have any sugestion of improvement, please share with us. For exemple, I guess aclocal.m4 contains mdbtools specific macros that are required on other platforms.

Regarding glib2, I'm a real beginer with autoconf/automake/libtool and the pkgtools. So do take my opinion with care. I suspect my patch is not enough if you have glib2 installed, but not glib2-dev. So, we should find a way to detect it, or at least documented it in INSTALL exactly as you suggested.


On Saturday 21 January 2012 20:43:58 Dale Scott wrote:
> I'm OK with INSTALL as-is. For some reason, I mistakenly thought it listed more than libtool, automake, and autoconf (which it doesn't). It is worth proposing a patch for the comment regarding libtool on FreeBSD? (FreeBSD 8.2 and FreeBSD 9.0 both use libtool-2.4).
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nirgal [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 12:37 PM
> > To: Dale Scott
> > Cc: [email protected]; 'Chris Craig'
> > Subject: Re: [mdb-dev] autogen error compiling current version
> > 
> > On Friday 20 January 2012 14:27:52 Dale Scott wrote:
> > > Could I humbly suggest also adding glib2 to the list of required
> > dependencies in the INSTALL file?
> > >
> > > (I've heard I can submit the change myself all through the Github web
> > > interface, but not sure exactly how. If you gave me a general
> > > idea.......)
> > 
> > I kinda disagree:
> > 
> > INSTALL documents the basic requirement for the build process to start:
> >     libtool
> >     automake
> >     autoconf
> > 
> > But there are many more dependencies such as:
> > 	bison
> > 	docbook
> > 	flex
> > 	libglade2-dev
> > 	libncurses-dev
> > 	openjade
> > 	txt2man
> > 	unixodbc-dev
> > 	...
> > 
> > I think these should be detected by configure.
> > 
> > After commit 5269dbfd7a4ec82af1830cc88a35230638902d99, I think you will
> > get this error message at configure time:
> > 	glib 2.0 is required by MDB Tools (runtime and devel).
> > 	It can be downloaded at www.gtk.org.
> > 
> > Am I mistaken?
> > 
> > If you still think we should change INSTALL, please send a patch against
> > https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools/blob/master/INSTALL
> > There are "raw" and "edit this file" links on that page.
> 
> 

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