Re: [bug-recutils] SOLVED (was: rectutils 1.5 Ubuntu 10.04: runs after compilation but not after inst)

[John Darrington]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 09:41:52PM +0000, Uwe Brauer wrote:
     >>> "Uwe" == Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:
     
     >>> "Jose" == Jose E Marchesi <address@hidden> writes:
        >>> I strongly recommend you to use 1.7, not 1.5.  What are the 
problems you
        >>> found building 1.7?
         
        >> Well right now, none, I swore there were some missing libraries last
        >> time I tried.
     
        >> Excellent :)
     
        > Now I have a problem, I am running ubuntu 10.04 on two laptops. I
        > installed recutils 1.7 one one succesfully but on the other
     
        > Configure tells me:
        > 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: building recutils without support for uuid types.
        > warning: not building the recutils bash builtins.
     
     I had to install
     bash-builtins
     uuid-dev
     check
     mdbtools-dev
     
     
     Then everything was fine again. Maybe add this to the README/INSTALL file?
     
This information would be highly specific to Ubuntu/Debian derrived systems.  

I think that "<library> was not found in the system" makes it clear to the 
person installing
that she needs to install <library>.  It does not attempt to say how to do 
that.  The current
README / INSTALL assumes that the reader knows about the general operation of 
their own
system.    

I suppose it would be possible to start maintaining a file giving specific
tips for each and every operating system, but I doubt if anyone has the time or 
inclination
to maintain such a thing.

J'


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