Re: [sweep-devel] Building sweep on debian

[Conrad P. <co...@ve...>]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:05:11AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> I built and ran sweep-0.5.8 on debian sid, which mainly required installing
> the -dev packages for such things as tdb, gtk, etc.
> 
> However there is some kind of error in the autoconf-generated configure file
> that prevents detection of libtdb.  I didn't delve into the precise cause,
> but the following crude patch (i.e., ignore result of tdb detection) allows
> configuration to complete successfully.

eek; Hi Daniel,

that's bizarre. I run sid too (with the tdb-dev package), and can't
reproduce this, but I'll try to look into it.

Anand, do you know what the problem is?

Conrad.

> 
> --- configure.old	2002-10-23 00:07:22.000000000 +0200
> +++ configure.new	2002-10-23 02:23:23.000000000 +0200
> @@ -9435,7 +9435,7 @@
>  echo $ac_n "checking for tdb_open in -ltdb""... $ac_c" 1>&6
>  echo "configure:9437: checking for tdb_open in -ltdb" >&5
>  ac_lib_var=`echo tdb'_'tdb_open | sed 'y%./+-%__p_%'`
> -if eval "test \"`echo '$''{'ac_cv_lib_$ac_lib_var'+set}'`\" = set"; then
> +if eval "test \"`echo '$''{'ac_cv_lib_$ac_lib_var'+set}'`\" = XXXset"; then
>    echo $ac_n "(cached) $ac_c" 1>&6
>  else
>    ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
> 
> --
> Daniel