Missing build/configure instructions

[dschulz]

It's too complicated to build if you're not familiar with autotools. In fact, I'm still trying to build, after 2 hours of trial/error.

[kstrauser]

I just landed the first leg of a cross-country trip. I've read this but it'll be a few days before I can really reply. In the mean time, there should be lots of "using autotools" websites and IRC channels.

[dschulz]

Thanks Kirk. I was able to build after a bit more experimenting. In short, I just needed to install some missing packages:

zypper install autoconf autoconf-archive automake autogen gettext-tools

and then run:

aclocal ; autoheader; automake --add-missing ; autoconf
./configure
make

and pgdbf was built successfully after that :-)

[kstrauser]

Hmm, it shouldn't have required even that. I'll take a look when I'm back online. Glad you got it working, though! :-)

[dschulz]

Please bear in mind that I'm not familiar with autotools, I just needed pgdbf built no matter how ;-)
Thanks for your time and for such an useful tool!

[guama]

On Ubuntu I needed to install these to get it to work
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install automake
apt-get install intltool

[kellen]

On ubuntu:
apt-get install autotools-dev automake
git clone [email protected]:kstrauser/pgdbf.git
cd pgdbf
rm compile
ln -s /usr/share/automake-1.14/compile
./configure; make; sudo make install

[hrj]

@kellen Thanks! That worked perfectly on Ubuntu