[Bookbase-help] Just downloaded the program, and had to fix an aborted compile/make

[Rikke D. G. <rg...@te...>]

The program looks nice!

There's a few things I've noticed.  For one thing, password should be 
an option, as my mysql server only serves well, me basically, and I'm 
not using a password.  *gasp... oh the horror!*

On my Redhat 7.3 system the compile failed at first.   Not sure what 
exactly is screwy with the configure script to make it fail, but it 
doesn't correctly locate the -lmysqlclient flag.  This is probably 
Redhat specific, I noticed in the archives another person had this 
failure.  Basically when you compile, when you get to the mysql part, 
the linker barfs with  a bunch of undefined references like this:

/home/rgiles/downloads/bookbase-0.8.8/src/callbacks.c:320: undefined 
reference to `mysql_init'
/home/rgiles/downloads/bookbase-0.8.8/src/callbacks.c:325: undefined 
reference to `mysql_real_connect'
/home/rgiles/downloads/bookbase-0.8.8/src/callbacks.c:327: undefined 
reference to `mysql_error'
/home/rgiles/downloads/bookbase-0.8.8/src/callbacks.c:367: undefined 
reference to `mysql_num_rows'
/home/rgiles/downloads/bookbase-0.8.8/src/callbacks.c:375: undefined 
reference to `mysql_num_rows'

ad infinitum.  I fixed this by editting the Makefile in the /src 
directory.

I changed the line
bookbase_LDFLAGS =

to
bookbase_LDFLAGS = -L/usr/lib/mysql

The program compiles fine after that.  The fix is only temporary 
though, if you have to reconfigure it will lose that line.  I'm afraid 
I'm not enough of an automake, autoconf expert to fix it permanently.

I'm looking forward to using this program.  I'm glad I don't have to 
develop one myself, as I was thinking of doing that.  If I come up with 
a way to get around requiring a password, I'll send in the patch, if 
you want it.

Thanks for the program!

Rikke