Re: [Refdb-users] Ubuntu install question

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Quoting dan...@ul...:

> I was wondering if it might not be a good idea to have a 'stable'   
> branch of refdb--most of the dependency errors seem unimportant and   
> I really wonder if the slightly older versions of the required files  
>  that ship with ubuntu, for example, wouldn't in most cases work   
> anyway. And it is not knowing which errors are important and which   
> are not that causes me all the grief, any way.
>

I'm afraid I'll need some more information about your dependency  
hassles. IIRC the only dependency of RefDB in terms of libdbi versions  
is that RefDB 0.9.6 through 0.9.9 require libdbi >= 0.8. Remember that  
libdbi 0.7.3 which ubuntu apparently still ships is approx. three  
years old. 0.7.3 does not support the extended character set encoding  
stuff that RefDB has relied upon since about three years. The current  
svn revisions of RefDB are built in a way that they can handle libdbi  
versions 0.8.x through 1.0.x (not released yet, only available in cvs)  
to avoid too strict version dependencies. That is, from my point of  
view RefDB has been stable in terms of libdbi dependencies for about  
three years and continues to do so - more than enough for packagers to  
catch up.

Now in order to figure out why your builds fail, would you please list  
the versions of libdbi, libdbi-drivers, and RefDB that you're trying  
to install, including any configure settings that you apply. Also,  
please append the error message (with sufficient context) that  
indicates the build failure to your mail.

regards,
Markus



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