Re: make error

Daniel O'Donnell <[email protected]> was heard to say:

> Following up on the libdbi problem:
>
> Has anybody successfully managed the make on a current debian system? I
> did a fresh install of Ubuntu 6.06 to make sure there was no legacy
> data, and have tried loading from the libdbi.sourceforge site as well as
> from the dapper.ubuntu site and simply cannot get through make. I get
> the wrong pointers error even with make dist-clean.
>

Is the error message still the same as in your original post? I don't know how
to check on the Ubuntu website for the version of a particular package. But if
you do get the "undefined symbol" error message, you definitely have an
outdated version of libdbi installed. I'd suggest to remove the packages and to
build libdbi and libdbi-drivers from the sources instead. You may have to edit
ld.so.conf and run ldconfig if you install libdbi in its default location.
/usr/local. If you do get a different error message than the "undefined
symbol", please post your make output again.

> I'm wondering if there is not a way of checking that the correct perl
> and other packages are installed and installing if not? I simply can't
> get a source install to work.
>

The Perl packages are not required for a successful build. Other packages like
libdbi could be changed to provide the necessary information to check for a
particular version. However, I'm not familiar with the required libtool tweaks,
so I'd need external help to get this done.

> I'd appreciate any experiences in debian: while I have no programming
> experience, I'm not an inexperienced linux user and it is unusual for me
> to get as stumped as I currently am.
>

I test libdbi and RefDB infrequently on a Debian box (testing). However, as a
developer I use the source distributions, or sometimes even the CVS/svn
versions, so I'll never bump into package issues. So far I never had a problem
building libdbi and RefDB on Debian.

regards,
Markus


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