Building problem on FreeBSD 8.1

[Donald Allen]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:04 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

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> On Jan 28, 2011, at 7:45 AM, Donald Allen wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:27 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 5:39 AM, Donald Allen wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> Is "-I/usr/local/include" in your $CFLAGS and/or $CPPFLAGS?
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> They weren't but setting those environment variables helps matters. Also
> needed is LDFLAGS=/usr/local/lib (otherwise it complains about the gettext
> package not being install, when it is). After doing that, configure
> completes, apparently happy. But running make produces
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> dca at octavian:/usr/home/dca/Software/Gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0$ 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
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> Stop in /usr/home/dca/Software/Gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0.
> *** Error code 1
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> Stop in /usr/home/dca/Software/Gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0.
> *** Error code 1
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> Stop in /usr/home/dca/Software/Gnucash/gnucash-2.4.0.
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> So not quit there yet.
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> Thanks for your help, John.
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> 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.
>

Doesn't help, same error (after running configure --disable-nls ; make)

/Don


>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>