Re: [bug-recutils] Problems building with readrec

[Leo Famulari]

I figured out by looking in ./configure that we are looking for the file
config.h in the bash headers tree. So now I can get readrec built
against the Debian Bash.

Now to figure out why Guix's Debian isn't building all the necessary
headers (specifically, stdc.h).

Thanks!

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015, at 09:37, 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.
>