dbi.h missing

[Phil Longstaff]

Probably should have been the gnucash-devel list, but this is OK.

dbi.h is in a package called libdbi-devel.  It provides a software API for accessing a database in a database-independent manner.  One change from 2.3.11 to 2.3.12 is that the default was changed from --disable-dbi to --enable-dbi i.e. by default, it will try to build the dbi backend.  The dbi backend to gnucash is used to access a gnucash file in an sqlite3, mysql or postgresql database.


"apt-get build-dep gnucash" would not know about gnucash's need for libdbi-devel package because the version of gnucash in ubuntu is 2.2.9 and the dbi backend was added in the (unstable) 2.3.X series which will soon be (stable) 2.4.0.  Once ubuntu has 2.4.0, "apt-get build-dep gnucash" will probably include libdbi-devel.

Note that libdbi provides a software API, but you then need a special libdbi-related driver for each database.  I don't remember the names of them off-hand, but they are something like dbd-sqlite3, dbd-mysql and dbd-pgsql.
 Phil
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________________________________
From: Bill Hammond <ka1ssr at gmail.com>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Wed, April 21, 2010 8:10:21 PM
Subject: dbi.h missing

Hello!

My apologies if this is the wrong list to ask this question.

I have a build issue under Ubuntu 9.10.  I recently checked out version
2.3.12 of gnucash.  autogen.sh ran with no errors, but configure
complained that it couldn't find dbi.h.  Running configure with
--disable-dbi makes configure happy and the make runs normally, as does
make install.  Gnucash runs fine with no complaints once the dust
settles.

Question: Does configuring without dbi hurt anything?  What package has
dbi.h?  "apt-get build-dep gnucash" tells me that all dependencies are
up-to-date.

Again, sorry if this should be posted to the development list or if this
is in the wiki or readmes.  I couldn't find it anywhere.

Bill



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