Re: [mdb-dev] autogen error compiling current version

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

On Friday 20 January 2012 14:27:52 Dale Scott wrote:
> Could I humbly suggest also adding glib2 to the list of required dependencies in the INSTALL file?
>
> (I've heard I can submit the change myself all through the Github web interface, but not sure exactly how. If you gave me a general idea.......)

I kinda disagree:

INSTALL documents the basic requirement for the build process to start:
    libtool
    automake
    autoconf

But there are many more dependencies such as:
	bison
	docbook
	flex
	libglade2-dev
	libncurses-dev
	openjade
	txt2man
	unixodbc-dev
	...

I think these should be detected by configure.

After commit 5269dbfd7a4ec82af1830cc88a35230638902d99, I think you will get this error message at configure time:
	glib 2.0 is required by MDB Tools (runtime and devel).
	It can be downloaded at www.gtk.org.

Am I mistaken?

If you still think we should change INSTALL, please send a patch against
https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools/blob/master/INSTALL
There are "raw" and "edit this file" links on that page.