Re: [gnome-db] compiling gnome - db-1.85 stuff

["Daniel Morgan" <danmorg sc rr com>]

This is what I would call "DLL Hell" on the Windows platform.  I don't know
what you would call it on Linux or Unix though. :-(

One thing, slackware db you are talking about isn't the same thing as
gnome-db nor libgda.  I could be wrong though.  Gnome-db and libgda are not
a DBMS, but a generic and powerful way to access data including data from
databases, XML, etc...  However, I must admit that libgda does come with a
"default provider" which is a provider to the SQL Lite database that is
included with libgda -- but that is just for testing configurations.
:-)

Are you talking about dbm?

----- Original Message -----
From: "mbrian" <caapiv freeshell org>
To: <gnome-db-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 5:07 AM
Subject: [gnome-db] compiling gnome - db-1.85 stuff


> I can't get gnome-libs to configure beyond the dbopen tests.
> For some reason db-1.85 won't compile on my linuxfromscratch system, or
> slackware 7.1 and the slackware db-1.85.4.slackware.bin.tgz package's
> libraries weren't convincing enough for configure... I managed to get
> db-4.0.14 to compile (with the --enable-compat185 option) and still
> nothing.
> I swear, *with* gnome, whenever I want to some gnome application, it
> seems like they all need ~6 packages if you count the dependencies
> dependencies and you're *never* caught up (you would think eventually
> you would simply fill up your disk or something). I guess it's no
> suprise that gnome-libs is even worse. I've spent forever with this, and
> I'm sure that configure is going to complain when I finally get *this*
> about something new many more times.
> Is there a *simple* solution for the dbopen thing that somebody here
> knows about? I figure it's probably something in my base libraries, like
> libc or something? I'm stuck, I need a hint maybe?
> Don't mean to whine so much, but twm is making me sick. Hope it's OK
> that there isn't any funky code or pages of logs for anyone :)(: in
> this.   ..Now I've got to get an intermediate window manager to use to
> step-up to gnome, I always wondered why it always seems to be running in
> tandem with sawfish or enlightenment :).