I'm afraid my recutils from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/recutils/recutils-1.7.tar.gz had no REDADME.dev. It did have a README, which mentions README.dev but no README.dev.
Best wishes, Colin. 05.04.2016, 13:54, "Jose E. Marchesi" <jema...@gnu.org>: > > I am looking for a sort of database I could use with orgmode. Anybody > > has a suggestion? What's about recutils? > > > > thanks > > > > Uwe Brauer > > I've just installed recutils from source. If you do the same then be > aware that as well as the usual linux packages, you will also need > "check", "uuid-dev" and "bash-builtins" for a successful build. Perhaps > its obvious that they would be required, but its certainly not > documented - at least as far as I could discover. Sorry that this was > perhaps off-topic, but it might be useful for others. > > These dependencies are documented in the README-dev file at the top > directory of the recutils source distribution. Excerpt: > > Dependencies > ------------ > There are some third party dependencies needed to build some of the > utilities shipped in this distribution. The configure script checks > for the needed packages and drives the conditional compilation of the > impacted utitilities. The dependencies are: > - The testing infrastructure uses the Check library. At the moment > the svn version of the library if needed. The configure script will > check if you have the right version. libcheck can be obtained at > http://sourceforge.net/projects/check/. > > The following dependencies are optional. Missing them will result in > a less capable software: > - The GNU Privacy Guard (gnupg) is required in order to support > encryption. The following libraries are required: libgpg-error and > libgcrypt. Any recent version of those libraries will work. gnupg > can be obtained at http://gnupg.org. > - libcurl is required for supporting remote descriptors. Any > recent version must work. The library can be obtained at > http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/. > - The mdbtools are required for building the mdb2rec utility. > mdbtools can be obtained at http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net. > - The UUID library from Theodore Ts'o is required for the uuid type. > In Debian-like systems that library is packaged under the name > uuid-dev and the runtime under the name libuuid1. > - The algol68toc compiler is required for building the Algol68 > bindings.