Re: [opendbx] Problems generating .deb

[Mariano M. P. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi Norbert

On Feb 3, 2008 9:28 AM, Norbert Sendetzky <no...@li...> wrote:

> Hi Mariano
>
> > Sorry. You are right. The problem is that when i compile and install
> > openDBX, it put some files in some places, but when i install it from
> deb
> > it put them in other place.
>
> Yes, that's true but not limited to the OpenDBX package. If you do
> a ./configure without --prefix on a .tar.gz package which uses automake as
> build tool, it wil always install the files to /usr/local/. This conforms
> to
> the filesystem hierarchy standard and don't mess up the rest of the
> system.
>
> Installing the distribution specific package is different because it's
> usually
> not self-compiled and must work not only on the machine where it was built
> but also on all others. Therefore the files are installed in /usr/ and are
> then available for all applications.
>

Good explanation! thanks.


>
> > Ok. Perfect. I installed that package and i now have the odbx so that to
> > compile applications who use opendDBX. Just by curious, how can i use
> > openDBX without a application? i mean, supose i don't have any
> application
> > who uses, can i use openDBX? How? using those scripts? Would you mine
> > giving me some example?
>
> I don't understand your question. OpenDBX is only a shared library which
> can't
> be used on it's own. You need at least some sort of application or a
> script
> in a scripting language which can provide access to the library functions
> to
> make the library do something useful.
>
> > *_odbx_lib_open(): Loading backend library failed:
> > /usr/local/lib/opendbx/libpgsqlbackend.so -
> > /usr/local/lib/opendbx/libpgsqlbackend.so: cannot open shared object
> file:
> > No such file or directory
> >
> > The same happends if i run the test you put in project (odbxtest.sh). I
> > have get it work if a generate a symbolic link. But it don't know why
> the
> > linker is looking in */usr/local/lib/ *and not in /usr/lib. Where i can
> > tell it where to search them? i put this in the makefile. The makefile
> of
> > my test is like this:
>
> You installed the files manually using "make install" and also installed
> the
> packages. Now the linker uses the wrong library file. Please remove all
> packages (apt-get remove libopendbx1), go the the directory where you did
> the "./configure", "make" and "make install" and do a "make uninstall". If
> you don't have this directory any more, unpack the .tar.gz package again,
> start the "./configure" script with the same options you used before and
> do
> a "make install". Then do a "make uninstall", remove the
> line "/usr/local/lib" from /etc/ld.so.conf an run ldconfig. Check if
> the /usr/local/lib and /usr/lib/ directories doesn't contain any OpenDBX
> files. At the end install the .deb package files again.
>


Yes, its true. I had manually installed the packages before installing .deb.
So i did what you tell me. I check the /usr/local/lib and /usr/lib/
directories doesn't contain any OpenDBX and i finally installed the .deb
packages. The result is the same: MY application, i mean, the test I do to
use openDBX looks at /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib. And obiously, it
doesn't find the files.

The only extrange thing is that my /etc/ld.so.conf looks like this:

include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf

Thats all the file. And if i see /etc/ld.so.conf.d i can't find it. It
doesn't exist.

Thanks,

Mariano


>
> > LDFLAGS = -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib/opendbx -L/usr/lib/pkgconfig
>
> You don't need this line. /usr/lib is automatically used and the rest
> isn't
> necessary.
>
>
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