MDB Tools

Hi all,

I've tagged 0.7_rc1 in the repository.

You can get the tarball version here:

https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools/zipball/0.7_rc1

Let me know if there are any problems!

Brian

 Hi.

  I've tried to install this newest version, and failed. It's most probably
something stupid I've done - I'm not really experienced in these things.

I've downloaded brianb-mdbtools-0.7_rc1-0-gc540d89.tar.gz and opened it (so
far so good), and tried to run autogen.sh. It complained about not having
the newest libtool. So I've got my sysadmin to install it (he claims he has
done it fine). Then I've run autogen,sh and it seemed good. Then
./configure, which printed a lot of things and then failed at

checking for iconv... yes
checking for iconv declaration...
         extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t
*inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
checking Are we using flex ... no - SQL engine disable
./configure: line 19875: syntax error near unexpected token `2.0.0'
./configure: line 19875: `AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0(2.0.0)'
I'm duffer at shell scripts too, and the sole line at configure line 19875,
which is simply 'AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0(2.0.0)' really didn't make sense to me. So
I've commented it out, and the configure has (apparently) successfully
finished. But now 'make' failed and I take it it has failed because of this
GLIB thing (in include/mdbtools.h, it tries to include glib.h, and
complained there's no such file or directory. And then a lot of other
errors, which I think result from this failed include).

  Any help wiil be appreciated,
Ariel.

P.S. I'm tring to install as non-root, if it matters. If there's a way to
not having to disturb my sysadmin again, that is, installing it all under my
homedir, I'd like to know. Thanks again
  2011/9/27 Brian Bruns <brian@...>

> Hi all,
>
> I've tagged 0.7_rc1 in the repository.
>
> You can get the tarball version here:
>
> https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools/zipball/0.7_rc1
>
> Let me know if there are any problems!
>
> Brian
>
>
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Also, you might need at have GLib 2 development package.

This is libglib2.0-dev on debian. I read this is glib2-devel on fedora.
What system are you using?

On Thursday 06 October 2011 06:46:23 אריאל קלגסבלד Ariel Klagsbald wrote:
>  Hi.
> 
>   I've tried to install this newest version, and failed. It's most probably
> something stupid I've done - I'm not really experienced in these things.
> 
> I've downloaded brianb-mdbtools-0.7_rc1-0-gc540d89.tar.gz and opened it (so
> far so good), and tried to run autogen.sh. It complained about not having
> the newest libtool. So I've got my sysadmin to install it (he claims he has
> done it fine). Then I've run autogen,sh and it seemed good. Then
> ./configure, which printed a lot of things and then failed at
> 
> checking for iconv... yes
> checking for iconv declaration...
>          extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t
> *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
> checking Are we using flex ... no - SQL engine disable
> ./configure: line 19875: syntax error near unexpected token `2.0.0'
> ./configure: line 19875: `AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0(2.0.0)'
> I'm duffer at shell scripts too, and the sole line at configure line 19875,
> which is simply 'AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0(2.0.0)' really didn't make sense to me. So
> I've commented it out, and the configure has (apparently) successfully
> finished. But now 'make' failed and I take it it has failed because of this
> GLIB thing (in include/mdbtools.h, it tries to include glib.h, and
> complained there's no such file or directory. And then a lot of other
> errors, which I think result from this failed include).
> 
>   Any help wiil be appreciated,
> Ariel.
> 
> P.S. I'm tring to install as non-root, if it matters. If there's a way to
> not having to disturb my sysadmin again, that is, installing it all under my
> homedir, I'd like to know. Thanks again
>   2011/9/27 Brian Bruns <brian@...>
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've tagged 0.7_rc1 in the repository.
> >
> > You can get the tarball version here:
> >
> > https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools/zipball/0.7_rc1
> >
> > Let me know if there are any problems!
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a
> > definitive record of customers, application performance, security
> > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes
> > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.
> > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1
> > _______________________________________________
> > mdbtools-dev mailing list
> > mdbtools-dev@...
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mdbtools-dev
> >
> 

Can you try to change in configure.in, on line 117,
AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0(2.0.0)
into
AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0([2.0.0])
?

Thank you for reporting that problem.

On Thursday 06 October 2011 06:46:23 אריאל קלגסבלד Ariel Klagsbald wrote:
>  Hi.
> 
>   I've tried to install this newest version, and failed. It's most probably
> something stupid I've done - I'm not really experienced in these things.
> 
> I've downloaded brianb-mdbtools-0.7_rc1-0-gc540d89.tar.gz and opened it (so
> far so good), and tried to run autogen.sh. It complained about not having
> the newest libtool. So I've got my sysadmin to install it (he claims he has
> done it fine). Then I've run autogen,sh and it seemed good. Then
> ./configure, which printed a lot of things and then failed at
> 
> checking for iconv... yes
> checking for iconv declaration...
>          extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t
> *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
> checking Are we using flex ... no - SQL engine disable
> ./configure: line 19875: syntax error near unexpected token `2.0.0'
> ./configure: line 19875: `AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0(2.0.0)'
> I'm duffer at shell scripts too, and the sole line at configure line 19875,
> which is simply 'AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0(2.0.0)' really didn't make sense to me. So
> I've commented it out, and the configure has (apparently) successfully
> finished. But now 'make' failed and I take it it has failed because of this
> GLIB thing (in include/mdbtools.h, it tries to include glib.h, and
> complained there's no such file or directory. And then a lot of other
> errors, which I think result from this failed include).
> 
>   Any help wiil be appreciated,
> Ariel.
> 
> P.S. I'm tring to install as non-root, if it matters. If there's a way to
> not having to disturb my sysadmin again, that is, installing it all under my
> homedir, I'd like to know. Thanks again

2011/10/6 Nirgal <contact_mdbtools@...>

> Can you try to change in configure.in, on line 117,
> AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0(2.0.0)
> into
> AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0([2.0.0])
> ?
>
> Okay, this seems to have an effect: configure fails no more. But make still
won't run: it says

[arielk@... brianb-mdbtools-c540d89]$ make
cd . && /bin/sh /home/arielk/brianb-mdbtools-c540d89/missing --run
aclocal-1.9
aclocal:configure.in:117: warning: macro `AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0' not found in
library
autom4te: cannot open autom4te.cache/requests: Permission denied
aclocal-1.9: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
[arielk@... brianb-mdbtools-c540d89]$ ls -l autom4te.cache/requests
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17255 Oct  4 12:09 autom4te.cache/requests

  I take it these are two separate problems. Do I have to be root in order
to install? no way around it?  And about glib, I don't have an idea on how
to check it (shame on me). The system runs CentOS, which my sysadmin claims
is compatible to RedHat 5.5.

> Thank you for reporting that problem.
>

Thank you for your help!

>
> On Thursday 06 October 2011 06:46:23 אריאל קלגסבלד Ariel Klagsbald wrote:
> >  Hi.
> >
> >   I've tried to install this newest version, and failed. It's most
> probably
> > something stupid I've done - I'm not really experienced in these things.
> >
> > I've downloaded brianb-mdbtools-0.7_rc1-0-gc540d89.tar.gz and opened it
> (so
> > far so good), and tried to run autogen.sh. It complained about not having
> > the newest libtool. So I've got my sysadmin to install it (he claims he
> has
> > done it fine). Then I've run autogen,sh and it seemed good. Then
> > ./configure, which printed a lot of things and then failed at
> >
> > checking for iconv... yes
> > checking for iconv declaration...
> >          extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t
> > *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
> > checking Are we using flex ... no - SQL engine disable
> > ./configure: line 19875: syntax error near unexpected token `2.0.0'
> > ./configure: line 19875: `AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0(2.0.0)'
> > I'm duffer at shell scripts too, and the sole line at configure line
> 19875,
> > which is simply 'AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0(2.0.0)' really didn't make sense to me.
> So
> > I've commented it out, and the configure has (apparently) successfully
> > finished. But now 'make' failed and I take it it has failed because of
> this
> > GLIB thing (in include/mdbtools.h, it tries to include glib.h, and
> > complained there's no such file or directory. And then a lot of other
> > errors, which I think result from this failed include).
> >
> >   Any help wiil be appreciated,
> > Ariel.
> >
> > P.S. I'm tring to install as non-root, if it matters. If there's a way to
> > not having to disturb my sysadmin again, that is, installing it all under
> my
> > homedir, I'd like to know. Thanks again
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a
> definitive record of customers, application performance, security
> threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes
> sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1
> _______________________________________________
> mdbtools-dev mailing list
> mdbtools-dev@...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mdbtools-dev
>

Hi all

Brian looks very busy and is unavailable. So I took the liberty to tag version
0.7 in the repository, after about 9 monthes!

Changes from version 0.7-rc1 are very small:
- Lot of documentation updated
- namespace reserved keywork when compiled with a c++ compiler
- A couple of code astetic changes that have been hanging in Debian for
  years. Thanks Filip Van Raemdonck
- Support for glibtoolize. Thanks Adam Vandenberg.

You can get the tarball version here:
https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools/tarball/0.7 (tar)
https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools/zipball/0.7 (zip)

Incoming are more intrusive patches such a odbc unicode support... :)

-- Jean-Michel Nirgal Vourgère

Hello Brian

I'm still fixing a few things here and there in mdbtools. I hope you have notifications.

I was thinking it would be nice to have a github hook to post on that list when there's a commit.

I think you can do that on the admin tab, in services hooks. There is an email hook that might do the trick.

Also there is a bug report about updating the source forge page that only you can fix.
https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools/issues/14

Finally, I'd like to add a bash_completion script I've been developing for Debian. I don't really know where to put it. Maybe an new extra/ folder? It could contain a nice .desktop file too.
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/mdbtools.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/mdbtools.bash-completion;hb=HEAD
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/mdbtools.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/mdbtools-gmdb.desktop;hb=HEAD

Cheers

Thanks for helping keep SourceForge clean.

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