[mdb-dev] building mdbtools without autconf/configure

[Ilya S. <il...@bl...>]

Good morning/evening,

Not sure whether this deserves to be in documentation/be part of the
source/or is just a useless curiousity....

Anyway, when I tried to build mdbtools on RH7.3, it turned out that I need
a newer autoconf, after trying and failing to update autoconf, I
tried to build mdbtools without it and it turned out to be a matter of a
 10-line script...The script is below, maybe it would be useful for
someone/somewhere...

#!/usr/bin/python
import os,sys
def run(cmd):
    print cmd
    status=os.system(cmd)
    assert  status ==0, "command failed"

run("echo '#define MDB_FULL_VERSION \"CVS051105\"' >include/mdbver.h")
run("touch include/config.g")
GLIB_INCL="-I../../include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include"
if not os.path.exists("bin"):
    os.mkdir("bin")

os.chdir("src/libmdb")
run("gcc -c %(GLIB_INCL)s *.c" % vars())
#run("ar r libmdb.a *.o")
os.chdir("../../")

os.chdir("src/util")
for tool in ("mdb-ver", "mdb-tables", "mdb-export", "mdb-schema",
             "mdb-check", "prtable", "prdump", "prdata"):
    run("gcc  %(GLIB_INCL)s -ldl -lm ../libmdb/*.o -lglib-2.0 %(tool)s.c -o../../bin/%(tool)s"
        %vars())

Does this brute force build method deserve to be mentioned in installation
guide?

Ilya