Re: [bug-recutils] Problems building with readrec

[Charles Millar]

On 10/10/2015 03:19 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015, at 09:17, Charles Millar wrote:
> > On 10/09/2015 03:11 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > > 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
> > 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.
> I think that those are all optional dependencies, so I am not too
> concerned about them, except for the last line:
> > > warning: not building the recutils bash builtins
> Do you think they are relevant? More importantly, can you use readrec?
> If so, how did you install recutils?
>
> Here are some more details about my process:
>
> I have been trying to update the Guix [1] packaging for recutils so that
> Guix users can get the readrec Bash builtin. In Guix all dependencies
> must be explicitly declared. So, the packaging process usually involves
> finding some undeclared dependencies that were implicitly satisfied on
> systems like Debian.
I ahd to look up Guix, so I guess you are using GNU; how is it?
> I wasn't having much luck so I decided to try the Debian Stretch
> packages. I installed recutils and bash-builtins (I already had Bash).
> Debian's recutils package puts the recutils in /usr/bin and readrec at
> /usr/lib/recutils/bash-builtins/readrec.so.
Not sure if Stretch installs recutils-1.7; jessie did not, so I 
downloaded 1.7, just as you did.
> But I can't enable readrec:
> $ enable readrec.so readrec
> bash: enable: readrec.so: not a shell builtin
> bash: enable: readrec: not a shell builtin
>
> That enable command also failed when I gave it the absolute path to
> readrec.so.
>
> So, finally, I found the relevant mail linked upthread with the "manual"
> installation instructions. That is where my configure warnings come
> from. I didn't even get to `make install` because ./configure did not
> select the Bash builtins to be built.
>
> I have no experience with installing and configuring Bash builtins so I
> could be missing something obvious...

When I ran  tar xzvf recutils-1.7.tar.gz the recutils-1.7 directory was 
installed in /etc/recutils-1.7. I read the INSTALL file and eventually 
determined, as I recall, that I had to run autoconf before ./configure. 
The INSTALL file described different set ups so it will give you more 
help than I can.

Charlie Millar