dbi default on .configure has changed

Phil Longstaff plongstaff at rogers.com
Mon Aug 16 17:46:14 EDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 16:20 -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> fOn Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Tommy Trussell
> <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I haven't compiled in awhile, and was following the steps for building
> > gnucash on the wiki at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building
> > (specifically Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04)
> >
> > The .configure fails on the dbi portion UNLESS I add --disable-dbi to
> > the .configure options.
> >
> > Since this didn't happen a few weeks ago, was the option changed to
> > encourage folks to try the dbi backend instead of using the
> > "traditional" xml file?
> >
> > If so the wiki needs to be updated, and I presume this should also
> > include a recommendation of which database is preferred.
> >
> 
> I found the previous discussions of this, including the announcement
> for 2.3.12 back on April 21 (has it been that long since I
> compiled???):
> 
>              * Change default from --disable-dbi to --enable-dbi. This
>                is needed so that 'make distcheck' will work with the
>                business sql backend tests.
> 
> Sorry for the noise. I will add a mention of --disable-dbi to the wiki.

Now that the business objects have been moved into the core area, it is
possible we can set it back to --disable-dbi as default.

Phil



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