Re: [mdb-dev] Installing mdbtools-0.5 l

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

Hi,

Unfortunately, gmdb2 requires Gnome 2.0 with all its accompanying 
dependancy hell.  In order to make it work with Gnome 1.x and Gnome 2, I 
would have had to do far too much duplication of effort, so I decided to 
go straight to Gnome 2 with the unfortunate side effect of not being able 
to be used by as many people as I'd like.  Fortunately the next generation 
of distro's come with gnome2 already (RedHat 8 for instance has it).

The dependancy I know of are listed in the user guide 
http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/install/c98.htm

In this case you need glib2, gnome2 and libglade2 and anything they rely 
on.  You might want to try garnome for an easy install from sources, or 
at least that's what I hear.

Regarding underscore in mdb-sql that bug fix is in CVS, but didn't get 
into 0.5, you could manually edit the src/sql/lexer.l and add _ to the 
NAME and IDENT tokens, see the list archive for more precise instructions.

On 4 Feb 2003, Marc Cassuto wrote:

> Good evening,
> 
> I was running almost perfectly mdbtools 0.4 (with gmdb)
> (On slackware 8.1)
> I still had  problems with columns using JET4 Databases
> but it was enough for my purpose.
> 
> I tried installing the version 0.5 hoping a full-fonctionnal viewer.
> But...
> 
> - now mdb-sql does not support the underscore character 
> (but it did with the version 0.4 ! )
> - now I tried to used gmdb (gmdb2 does not compil) and it crash while
> loading
> my database
> - so I tried to compile gmdb2 and this start to be a long long run :
>      -> first to get mdbtools 0.5 compiling I had to install glib2,
> pkgconfig & gettext
>      -> mdbtools did compile but there was still error about libglad
> (and no binary file
> for gmdb)
>      -> so I installed libglade, but It asked for libxml, atk, gtk+
> (this asked for pango)
>      -> But I did still not have my binary file for gmdb2
>      -> in fact it asked for libgnomeui (that ask for libgnome-2.0 >=
> 1.104.0 libgnomecanvas-2.0 >= 1.104.0                   libbonoboui-2.0
> >= 1.97.0 gconf-2.0 >= 1.1.1) and I am fed up with this long install...
> 
> Is the way from gmdb still long ?
> Is there really no way to get gmdb2 running simply ?
> Will I still have gmdb1 running with the new libmdb ?
> Can I have a version of libmdg dealing with the underscore ?
> 
> Please help (and excuse-me for this full-of-mistakes engkish language)
> 
> Marc Cassuto.
> 
>