Re: [gnome-db] 0.2.90: compilation problems

["Dmitry G. Mastrukov ( =?koi8-r?q?=E4=CD=C9=D4=D2=C9=CA=20=E7=C5=CE=CE=C1=C4=D8=C5=D7=C9=DE=20=ED=C1=D3?=) =?koi8-r?q?=D4=D2=C0=CB=CF=D7?=" <dmitry taurussoft org>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 06:14, Dmitry G. Mastrukov wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I've had some problems when compiling 0.2.90
> > First of all I wasn't be able to build both libgda and gnome-db from 
> > outside of the source tree. I like to build packages from separate 
> > directory but sometimes developers don't care of $(TOPSRCDIR), 
> > $(SRCDIR) and other similar variables in .in files and simply use 
> > ../dir/file, especially when it's necessary to process such file with 
> > external tool (like with orbit-idl in libgda). Two error traces are below.
> > From source directory build process is ok.
> yes, I know this is broken, we're using "always" $(top_builddir), which
> is broken. All I know about this problem is that I must add 2 parameters
> for each header directory (-I$(top_builddir)/dir -I$(top_srcdir)/dir),

Seems you need this only if you generate headers, but in ordinary case 
-I$(top_srcdir)/dir is sufficient.

> but how can I deal with this when calling a program, as is the case whn
> calling orbit-idl?

I think you should look at another gnome packages. I build all GNOME 
from separate directory except for libgda, gnome-db and may be few 
non-main packages (I even can't recall which)

> > Next I've found many occurences of GdaServerError in some providers in 
> > libgda, for example gda-mail-server. As I understood from Changelog 
> > GdaServerError was meged with GdaError so I replaced GdaServerError 
> > with GdaError and compilation ended ok.
> yes, those providers (gda-mail-server and others) don't work, and might
> not even compile, so please, don't lose your time trying to compile/run
> them. The ones that work are ODBC, Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, Interbase
> (maybe) and Sybase as soon as I apply Mike's patch.

I claim only that gda-mail-server compiles with GdaError. I always try 
to use maximum number of options :)

Regards,
Dmitry