[PATCH] Fix detection of DBD modules for multiarch setups

Sébastien Villemot sebastien at debian.org
Mon Feb 17 13:35:32 EST 2014


Le lundi 17 février 2014 à 19:16 +0100, Geert Janssens a écrit :
> On Sunday 09 February 2014 16:16:10 Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > With the upload of DBD 0.9 to Debian unstable, the location of the DBD
> > modules has changed. This causes failures to compile GnuCash. The
> > attached patch fixes this.
> > 
> > Thanks,

> Thanks for your patch. It appears to have gone unnoticed until now.
> 
> Before I apply it I'd like the opinion of some other core devs on this: 
> is there a reason we hard code the dbd search path instead of relying on 
> pkg-config ? I'm tempted to drop /usr/lib/dbd:/usr/lib64/dbd:
> ${libdir}/dbd and only keep the pkg-config bit added by Sébastien. Or 
> would that break on some of the supported platforms ?

Actually Derek Atkins explained (in [1]) that doing so would break
configuration on some Fedora systems. So the safest option seems to
apply my patch as is.

[1]
http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2014-February/037085.html

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