dbi.h missing [SOLVED]

[Bill Hammond]

Hi, Phil!

I installed libdbi0-dev and libdbd-sqlite3.  Everything (including make
check) came up all bunnies and cupcakes.

I'll join the developer's list, as I would like to help in testing.

Thanks for your help!

Bill

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 17:43 -0700, Phil Longstaff wrote:
> 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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