On Tuesday 18 May 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: > 1) libdbi, in its default configuration, puts the driver directory > in $libdir/dbd, not a hardcoded /usr/lib/dbd. Fix gnucash's configury > to use the same. > > 2) If GNC_DBD_DIR is not set, fall back to the libdbi compiled-in default > (whatever it may be) rather than a hardcoded value, as it's more likely > to be correct. > > Bill > Thank you for your patch. I tested it and it basically works like you describe.
There's one thing though that keeps me from committing it right away and I would like to discuss first. Using $libdir/dbd works well when GnuCash will be installed with the same prefix as libdbi, so it works well for packagers. However, when developing, GnuCash is usually installed in a different prefix, to avoid clashing with an installed stable version. In this case, $libdir/dbd will be pointing to $prefex/lib/dbd. Usually that's not where a GnuCash developer has installed the dbd drivers, which are still in the standard installation location. Obviously, it's easy to configure with --with-dbi-dbd-path pointing at the proper location for development and all is well. I just wonder if it's possible to rewrite configure in such a way that it always does the right thing. I mean is there some automatic parameter like $libdir but one that then points to the system wide lib directory instead of the one relative to prefix ? That would give an even better solution. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
