Re: Building some extra libs (renaissance, gnustep-guile,

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 1 Oct 2009, at 11:54, Pablo Giménez wrote:

> Hi
> After been able to build the core packages now I face the extra libs.
> Well I have tried to build some of them, I have to admit whithout  
> luck, here are my problems:
> - Renaissance 0.8.0:

I checked in svn ... the author made a 0.9.0 release 18 months ago,  
but didn't update the website, and since then there are several  
improvements/fixes in svn.
You should use the version from svn (which does work with the more  
recent versions of GNUstep).

> - gnustep-guile 1.1.4:

This is an old library, and you need an old version of GNUstep (and  
old version of Guile) to build and run it.

> - StepTalk:

Also old ... you might want to port this to the more recent releases  
though?

> - SQLClient 1.3.0
> I can't configure the package I am trying with the next configure  
> statement:
> ./configure --disable-jdbc-bundle --with-additional-include=-I/usr/ 
> include

Just running ./configure should be sufficient, though the options you  
used should do no harm.

> but it can't find the includes for mysql, postgres ans sqlite. I  
> have checked and all of them  are in the /usr/iclude as usual.

Then you need to look at output/log file from the configure script ...  
it should record why the headers don't work.
The usual reasons for headers not being found are:

1. development packages for the databases not installed on the system  
(obviously the packages need to be installed)
or
2. headers not in /urs/include (perhaps in a subdirectory or in  
another header directory ... in which case you need to use --with- 
additional-include= to specify the correct directories.