r23186 - gnucash/trunk - Bug 654196 - "make check" fails when built with --enable-dbi

[John Ralls]

On Sep 23, 2013, at 7:44 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> 
>> On Sep 21, 2013, at 3:44 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>> We don't. There are three ways, of which adding --with-dbd-dir to
>>> configure's arguments is the "recommended" one.
>> 
>> Sorry, that's --with-dbi-dbd-dir.
> 
> Perhaps we should leverage that....  Except for the fact that "make
> distcheck" just calls "configure" with no arguments so we need to make
> sure that works properly.

Make distcheck does work (except for Christian :-( ) at present on Linux and should
work on BSD. It doesn't work on OSX because there it needs a prefix argument, 
but that's skew to this subject. I've no idea whether it works on Windows, but I don't 
think that there'd ever be a reason for it to.

Regards,
John Ralls