[Bookbase-help] Results of install, and comments
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From: <jh...@al...> - 2002-10-19 16:59:39
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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. |