[Bookbase-help] Results of install, and comments

[<jh...@al...>]

First, I had to install MySQL to run it - and even after buying a book on 
MySQL I couldn't figure out how to add myself as a user with the ability
to create a database and diddle with it.

Then after doing configure and make, it couldn't find the mysql library
in the linking step.  Being incompetent to debug configure scripts I just
hand-edited the src/Makefile, adding -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient
and then it linked up properly.

This is the first book catalog I found on sourceforge; and maybe it is not
the one I should be trying to use.  There doesn't seem to be any place to
put the book catalog number - how do you shelve your books if you don't 
use Library of Congress or Dewey Decimal catalog numbers?  The genre 
column isn't useful to me; that is implicit in the catalog number.
Nor do I have any use for the cover and cover price and times read data;
but I can ignore those.

Not being a Real Programmer, I got to wondering why a dbm is 
useful/necessary for a home library of a few thousand books.  I'm starting
to think maybe I should make a flat file, sort it by title and author and
catalog number, and then write a little program to print it nicely.