Re: [Refdb-users] Ubuntu install question

[Dan O'D. <dan...@ul...>]

This of course is a real dependency, and hence not what I meant: I'd
hoped that 7.x was also possible, but I see it is not.

I've just built a clean box. On the weekend I'll try again the
installation and keep very careful notes.


On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 08:47 +0200, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Chair, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
Director, Digital Medievalist Project
(http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)
Associate Professor of English
Department of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4

vox: +1 (403) 329-2377
fax: +1 (403) 382-7191
email: dan...@ul...
homepage: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/