Building problem on FreeBSD 8.1

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Fri Jan 28 11:04:56 EST 2011


On Jan 28, 2011, at 7:45 AM, Donald Allen wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:27 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> On Jan 28, 2011, at 5:39 AM, Donald Allen wrote:
> 
> > On a FreeBSD 8.1, I've downloaded the 2.4 tarball. When I run 'configure', I
> > get
> >
> > checking for gzopen in -lz... yes
> > configure: External QOF Disabled.  Using Internal QOF Code.
> > checking dbi/dbi.h usability... no
> > checking dbi/dbi.h presence... no
> > checking for dbi/dbi.h... no
> > configure: error: Unable to find dbi/dbi.h
> >
> > But
> >
> > dca at octavian:/usr/home/dca/Software/Gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0$ find /usr/local
> > -name dbi.h -print
> > /usr/local/include/dbi/dbi.h
> > dca at octavian:/usr/home/dca/Software/Gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0$
> >
> > I probably could fix this with a symlink in /usr/include, but isn't this
> > what configure is for, to understand the configuration and generate the
> > makefiles accordingly? The BSDs, unlike Linux, tend to put installed
> > packages in /usr/local, so I'm guessing this would be a problem on OpenBSD
> > and NetBSD as well. Perhaps I'm missing something here, so I thought I'd
> > check with all of you before trying the symlink hack.
> 
> Is "-I/usr/local/include" in your $CFLAGS and/or $CPPFLAGS?
> 
> They weren't but setting those environment variables helps matters. Also needed is LDFLAGS=/usr/local/lib (otherwise it complains about the gettext package not being install, when it is). After doing that, configure completes, apparently happy. But running make produces
> 
> dca at octavian:/usr/home/dca/Software/Gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0$ make
> make  all-recursive
> Making all in .
> rm -f make-gnucash-potfiles.tmp
> sed <  > make-gnucash-potfiles.tmp  -e 's:@-SRCDIR-@:.:g'  -e 's:@-PERL-@:/usr/bin/perl:g'
> Syntax error: redirection unexpected
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop in /usr/home/dca/Software/Gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/home/dca/Software/Gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/home/dca/Software/Gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0.
> 
> So not quit there yet. 
> 
> Thanks for your help, John.

I don't know offhand where that error is coming from, but you should be able to get around it by passing --disable-nls to configure.

Regards,
John Ralls


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