On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 05:55:59PM +0100, Platonides wrote: > On 10/11/12 16:58, Andre Koopal wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Today I am working on a project where I need to convert an access database > > dump to something else (mysql likely). Most things I found on the web > > are not really suitable to script this process (it will need to run every > > month), but mdbtools looks to be promising. However I tried to compile > > that on toolserver all I got out of it are coredumps :-(. (Tried both on > > willow and nightshade). The ubuntu pacakge does work on my home server. > > > > Did anybody ever look into mdbtools and have it working? Is it perhaps > > possible to have it globally installed on toolserver, as it probably is > > usefull to some of the glam-projects as well? > > I was able to compile mdbtools-0.6pre1 for linux, see the result at > /mnt/user-store/mdbtools > > I admit that compilation was a bit tricky. When it complains that > backend.c:31: error: static declaration of 'mdb_backends' follows > non-static declaration, remove the static keyword from that line. > yacc and flex are not installed in nightshade, I worked around that by > running those of willow. > The flex rule expected an output file of .c, so I ran ln -s lex.yy.c .c > (otherwise you get an empty lexer.c) > > However, the generated binaries didn't output any table for your file. > > I then realised that my local mdbtools does work with yout file. Seems > that mdbtools-0.7 is in GitHub, but not in SourceForge: > https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools > > However, in order for just running autoconf.sh, it needs libtool, which > is not installed in Linux or Solaris.
Hi Platonides, I indeed have 0.7 as well on my home-server. Will there be any luck getting libtool? Is there perhaps already a mdbtools 0.7 package for debian, that can be installed? Regards, Andre > > > > > > > > > If people want an mdb file to test with, the file I need to convert is > > at /mnt/user-store/rce-nl-data. > > > > Regards, > > > > Andre > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > > Posting guidelines for this list: > > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette > > > _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
