Re: [mdb-dev] 0.7_rc1 release

[אריאל ק. A. K. <kid...@gm...>]

2011/10/6 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])
> ?
>
> Okay, this seems to have an effect: configure fails no more. But make still
won't run: it says

[arielk@this 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@this 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
>
>
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