On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:30AM +0100, Marlen Caemmerer wrote: > Hello, > > I am a bit confused. > I found libtool installed on yarrow and nightshade which are the linux > userland servers. > I tried to autogen.sh the version of mdbtools from github and it worked until > it tried to generate the man pages but this problem could be solved quite > quick too. > So I have a working copy of mdbtools 0.7 in my home done by autogen.sh. > Our debian stable would install: > > mdbtools (0.5.99.0.6pre1.0.20051109-7) > > Is this version fine too or do you prefer 0.7?
Hi Marley, at first thanks for looking, appreciated. Given the test Platonides did, 0.5 doesn't read the mdb file I need to read, so 0.7 will be the version that is needed. Regards, Andre > > Kind regards > Marlen/nosy > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Andre Koopal wrote: > > >> > >>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 > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ 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
