Re: [bug-recutils] Problems building with readrec

[Charles Millar]

On 10/12/2015 09:37 AM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>      Okay, I was able to enable the readrec installed by apt-get in Debian
>      Stretch by using the -f option to enable:
>      $ enable -f /usr/lib/recutils/bash-builtins/readrec.so readrec
>      
>      So, I am studying the Debian packaging to figure out how they get
>      ./configure to build readrec. However, I don't know much about Debian
>      packaging so I'm not sure what to look for. Any help appreciated!
>
> The recutils configure script checks for the availability of the bash
> headers.  By default it looks in /usr/include/bash, which is where they
> are alocated in Debian.
>
> You can override that location at configure time like this:
>
> $ ./configure --with-bash-headers=/path/to/bash/sources/
>
> You can also look at config.log to see what went wrong when running
> configure.  Most probably the bash headers were not found.
I have slowly added the necessary dependencies have been added to my 
system with the exception of Access.

I ran

./configure --with-bash-headers=/usr/share/bash

which concluded with

warning: libmdb was not found in the system.
warning: the mdb2rec utility won't get built.
warning: not building the recutils bash builtins

The first two warnings are no suprise.

However as to the last warning I have no idea what to look for in the 
configure.log, other than the obvious

BASH_BUILTINS_FALSE=' '
BASH_BUILTINS_TRUE='#'
BASH_HEADERS='/usr/share/bash'

SHELL='/bin/bash'

configure: exit 0

What should I look for to determine the error of my ways.

Charlie Millar