Re: adding db2 support

["Peter C. Norton" <spacey lenin nu>]

OK, I've just got past the point of the db2 portion mostly building.  I used
the gda-odbc-server as a base, since the db2 cli is just odbc + extensions
(I'll start on the LOB stuff once I've confirmed that I can talk to a
database).

My trouble with automake was some unfortunate cut-n-paste choices (using the
ODBC provider, which uses one underscore less then the others for it's
variable names).

So far, this looks amazingly easy.  

Hmm... problem.  Can anyone tell me a little more about how the odbc
providers gdk_odbcconfig_new() is supposed to work?  I'm blocked on this.

-Peter

P.S. Is there some style documentation or something on the gnome web site
talking about how the projects' build processes are structured?  It's really
hard to figure out what is going on when a build fails vis-a-vis the
makefile.

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:24:16AM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> "Peter C. Norton" wrote:
> > 
> > I'm starting to add support for IBM's db2 to gnome-db, but I'm having
> > trouble at the outset getting automake to generate the makefile I'll need.
> > Can anyone help me get a leg up on automake here?
> > 
> There are 2 steps on this:
> 
> 1) you should add a check in configure.in as it is done for the other
> providers (--with-mysql, --with-postgres, etc). Then, in the AC_OUTPUT
> macro (at the end of the configure.in file, you must a line such as
> 	gda-db2-server/Makefile
> Then, when running ./configure, pass it the --with-db flag, so that the
> includes and libs are detected.
> 
> 2) Then, you must add a Makefile.am file to the gda-db2-server
> directory. Have a look at the other providers to see how this is done.
> It is important that you define in configure.in the DB2_INCLUDES and
> DB2_LIBS variables (just look, for example, for POSTGRES_INCLUDES, and
> add a similar line for DB2_INCLUDES, and the same for POSTGRES_LIBS and
> DB2_LIBS). Then, just add the DB2_INCLUDES variable to the INCLUDES var
> in Makefile.am, and DB2_LIBS to the gda_db2_srv_LDADD variable.
> 
> Another important thing, please use the gda-ldap or gda-interbase
> providers (although they're empty) as a reference. Don't try to do it as
> the other providers, as we're now moving to use the libgda-server
> library in the providers. And note that this lib is in development, so
> please report any bug you find.
> 
> And, thanks very much for doing this! As soon as you send me some code,
> I'll ask for a CVS account for you.
> 
> Cheers
> 
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