Re: [bug-recutils] Problems building with readrec

[Charles Millar]

Hi Leo,

On 10/09/2015 03:11 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to build recutils with the readrec bash builtin.
>
> I tried following the instructions given on 2015-01-11 on help-recutils
> [1] but I can't successfully ./configure the build process to build
> readrec. I wonder if there is a "hidden" dependency?
>
> Here is what I did:
>
> $ mkdir dir && cd dir
> $ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.3.tar.gz
> $ tar xzf bash-4.3.tar.gz && mv bash-4.3 bash
> $ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/recutils/recutils-1.7.tar.gz
> $ tar xzvf recutils-1.7.tar.gz
> $ cd recutils-1.7
> $ ./configure --with-bash-headers=../bash/
> # I also tried to give the absolute path /home/user/dir/bash/
>
> The configure log ends with:
> [...]
> warning: libcheck was not found in the system.
> warning: unit tests wont be compiled and executed upon make check.
> warning: libmdb was not found in the system.
> warning: the mdb2rec utility won't get built.
> warning: glib was not found in the system.
> warning: the mdb2rec utility won't get built.
> warning: building recutils without encryption support.
> warning: building recutils without support for uuid types.
> warning: not building the recutils bash builtins
>
> Let me know what other information I can provide.
>
> Leo
>
> [1]
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-recutils/2015-01/msg00001.html
I am definitely no expert, however, that being said,

Is recutils installed in /usr/local and did you try some of the commands 
such as recsel?

On my mint laptop and Jessie desktop, any warnings concerning mdb made 
no difference since M$ access is not on my system.

Charlie Millar