Re: mkoctfile-database - compiling problems

[Olaf Till]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 06:50:14PM +0000, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 9 January 2013 16:27,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 20:48:21 +0000
> > From: richard <address@hidden>
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: mkoctfile-database - compiling problems
> > Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am running octave-3.6.2 on Debian|wheezy
> >
> > I'm attempting to run :
> >> pkg install database-1.0.4.tar
> >
> > I installed octave-dev - > mkoctfile no longer throws up
> > unable to find mkoctfile in expected location: `/usr/bin/mkoctfile'
> >
> > however, something at the bottom of config.h seems wrong:
> > ##################################
> > /* oct-types.h */
> >
> > typedef OCTAVE_IDX_TYPE octave_idx_type;
> >
> > #include <stdint.h>
> > ################################
> > I do not have oct-types.h in the /octave-3.6.2/octave/ directory
> >
> > should it be there?
> >
> > Also, is anyone else running database-1.0.4 ?
> > are there any problems runnit with postgres?
> 
> The database package is unmaintained, the last released has been made
> 4 years ago. It is no longer packaged by Debian, most likely because
> of that. You may want to try the development version, maybe it works.
> 
> If you are interested on the database package, we will welcome your
> contributions (patches are great or you can also convince other devs
> to work on it for you).
> 
> Carnë

FYI, I'm about to suggest a postgresql package for inclusion into
forge. It will probably last at most a few days.

Olaf

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