Re: [mdb-dev] Is their anyone on this list? - Dependencies question

[Brian B. <ca...@ai...>]

When compiling it should detect readline or not and just not use it if it
doesn't find it.  I believe the rpm is built with readline enabled, but I
can't imagine a modern linux distro not having readline, too many of the
gnu tools use it.

As for glib, it is absolutely a requirement.  All the hashes, dynamic
arrays and such use it.  RPMs (install the devel one too) should be
availible or grab source from gtk.org.

Brian

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, David Ayliffe wrote:

> I'm having difficulty installing mdbtools on my suse linux box.  The
> dependency libreadline.so.4.1 is unsatisfied. I have tried the .tar file
> but I don't have glib.  I tried to install glib.h but to no avail - it
> configures and makes but nothing seems to happen.  I tried to install
> libreadline.so.4.1 but this needs ls.o.1 (or similar can't remember).
> So I tried to install this and the package for this needs about 20 other
> dependencies.  Frustrating!!
> 
> Is their an easy way to get a release of mdbtools with no dependencies?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks lots
> David Ayliffe (ma...@ay...)