Building Without Gnome

[Rich Shepard]

   Some of our prospective clients have data in Access .mdb format, and we
can help them by converting those data to another format. Today I discovered
MDB Tools, and tried building both 0.5 and 0.6pre1, but both failed because
I do not have Gnome installed. However, libglade is installed here.

   I have run only Xfce and have found that trying to install Gnome on
Slackware is so much of a PITA that I won't waste more time trying.

   Is there a way to build mdb-tools so we can use the command line
conversion API without the GUI which requires Gnome?

Thanks,

Rich

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[Dane Springmeyer]

Hi Rich,

try: 

--disable-gmdb2

Also, from reading the list archives it seems that there is good reason to checkout from cvs (which requires building with autogen and getting libtool, automake, and autoconf)

My build process was:

downloaded and compiled unixODBC, iODBC, libtool, automake, autoconf (and glib and pkg-config since I have a wierd setup) then:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@... login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@... co mdbtools

cd mdbtools

./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/dspringmeyer/usr/local --with-iodbc=/home/dspringmeyer/usr/local --with-unixodbc=/home/dspringmeyer/usr/local --disable-gmdb2

In the configure output I get:

....

checking for GNOME... configure: gmdb2 disabled

....

which I think is what you are looking for, since gmdb2 is (at least one of) the gui(s)

Cheers,

Dane

On Dec 4, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

   Some of our prospective clients have data in Access .mdb format, and we

can help them by converting those data to another format. Today I discovered

MDB Tools, and tried building both 0.5 and 0.6pre1, but both failed because

I do not have Gnome installed. However, libglade is installed here.

   I have run only Xfce and have found that trying to install Gnome on

Slackware is so much of a PITA that I won't waste more time trying.

   Is there a way to build mdb-tools so we can use the command line

conversion API without the GUI which requires Gnome?

Thanks,

Rich

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[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Dane Springmeyer wrote:

> try:
>
> --disable-gmdb2

Dane,

   Thank you, I will ... when I return from a business trip.

> Also, from reading the list archives it seems that there is good reason to
> checkout from cvs (which requires building with autogen and getting
> libtool, automake, and autoconf)

   There's just one stumbling block (which I can fix): I use subversion so I
don't have cvs installed.

Much appreciated,

Rich

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