SQL backend

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>:

> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 18:39 +0100, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
>
>> Phil Longstaff wrote:
>> > The only think I can think of is that the dbi module isn't being loaded.
>>
>> Phil,
>>
>> thank you for your continued support.
>>
>> So, this just may be a case of incorrectly compiling gnucash?  I sure
>> hope I wasn't wasting everybody's time because of my stupidity.
>>
>> There is no file libgncmod-backend-dbi.so below /export/gnucash, but
>> there is one in /usr/lib/gnucash/gnucash.  That one is from a
>> self-compiled deb package.  Why was this file not created for the
>> installation below /export/gnucash?
>> /export/gnucash/lib/libgnc-backend-sql.so does exist, btw.  "strings
>> /export/gnucash/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-engine.so | fgrep dbi" returns
>> nothing, but the file itself exists.
>
>
> lib/libgnc-backend-sql.so will always be built.

Actually, it should only be built if you --enable-sql

> libgncmod-backend-dbi.so will only be built it --enable-dbi is provided
> when gnucash is configured.  The string I was asking you to search for
> in libgncmod-engine.so is used to load the dbi backend at run time.  It
> is only loaded if configure could find dbi/dbi.h (usually
> in /usr/include).
>
>>
>> As another way to look for the root of the problem; can you provide me
>> with a working sqlite file of a sample gnucash file?  I'd like to see if
>> I can read it in.
>
>
> I'll send one to you directly so that it doesn't clog the mailing list.
>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Rolf

-derek

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