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

[Dale S. <dal...@sh...>]

I'm OK with INSTALL as-is. For some reason, I mistakenly thought it listed more than libtool, automake, and autoconf (which it doesn't). It is worth proposing a patch for the comment regarding libtool on FreeBSD? (FreeBSD 8.2 and FreeBSD 9.0 both use libtool-2.4).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nirgal [mailto:con...@ni...]
> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 12:37 PM
> To: Dale Scott
> Cc: mdb...@li...; 'Chris Craig'
> Subject: Re: [mdb-dev] autogen error compiling current version
> 
> 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.