Re: [mdb-dev] 0.7_rc1 release

[Nirgal <con...@ni...>]

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