RE: [gnome-db] install.sh

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 23:55, Fernando Martins wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, autogen.sh died when it tried to call /configure rather than
> ./configure. This is a quite strange, I thought the current directory would
> be the default.
> 
hmm, strange indeed.

> Anyway, I ran configure by hand and it exited with:
> 
> 1)
> ./configure: line 19461: syntax error near unexpected token
> `GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS(maximum)'
> ./configure: line 19461: `GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS(maximum)'
> 
> I commented out this statement and then got:
> 
> 2)
> configure: WARNING: Couldn't find scrollkeeper-config -- please install the
> scrollkeeper package
> 
> I think this is need for the documentation, right? How can I skip the it?
> 
yes, it's needed for documentation. You can disable it by making it not
mandatory in configure.in. That is, don't exit if it's not found, just
define the correct defines and modify the Makefile.am's accordingly.

> 3)
> ./configure: line 19461: syntax error near unexpected token
> `GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS(maximum)'
> ./configure: line 19461: `GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS(maximum)'
> 
> Again, I commented out this statement and then got:
> 
> 4)
> *** Your version of pkg-config is too old. You need version 0.9.0 or newer.
> *** See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig
> 
> This is strange as I've pkg-config 0.14. However, this version is tweaked by
> Tor Lillqvist, so I'll ask in the gimpwin list. I simply took out the test
> in configure and then I got:
> 
what does pkg-config --version output?

> 5)
> checking for LC_MESSAGES... no
> checking libintl.h usability... no
> checking libintl.h presence... no
> checking for libintl.h... no
> 
> Do you know what is LC_MESSAGES and where does it come from?
> 
it's for internationalization. It's defined in acconfig.h or
configure.in

> libintl.h is installed. So some path is missing somewhere. Any idea
> what/where to check?
> 
hmm, this is in /usr/include on my linux box. Where is it on windows?

> > > Also, what are the usual parameters people use for configure?
> > >
> > --prefix
> > --with-[mysql|postgres...]=
> >
> 
> Any sugestion between MySQL, sqlite, mdb? any guess about which one could
> give less trouble with libgda in Windows (from the POV of building, etc)? (I
> don't care about features)
> 
mysql is the best supported of the ones you mention. I'm not sure though
how easy would be to make it work on windows, although I guess it should
work like on linux.

cheers