Brad Chapman writes: > Hey everyone! > I have a favor to request from everyone on the list! As you may > know, we are hoping to use XDBM as our XML database manager. Well, I have > been working to get XDBM compiling on my FreeBSD machine, and have been > having a lot of issues that I'm still trying to work out. This got me to > thinking that likely XDBM may have issues on other machines as well, and > that it might be good to get these kinks worked out before XDBM will start > being an essential part of Loci itself. So, my request is, could everyone > who has a little time on their hands try compiling XDBM on there respective > machines? It should work fine on Linux machines (which is where is was > developed) but I worry about how well it will compile on other machines. > There is no INSTALL file, so below I'll give you everyone I know about > trying to compile it (keep in mind that I haven't actually been successful > yet--close, but not successful!). Thanks in advance for anyone who tries to > do this. You can either direct questions at me (chapmanb at arches.uga.edu) or > at the XDBM mailing list (xdbm-dev at bowerbird.com.au). Please let me know > how it works out. Thanks again! > > Brad > Ok - great advantage to take a rest from my writing :-) SUN Ultra1, Solaris 2.7 with gcc and GNU make, reports no problem ... I have compiled libxdbm-1.0.6.tar.gz libunicode-0.5.tar.gz and pcre-2.08.tar.gz ( I skipped the doc part of libxdbm-1.0.6.tar.gz which needed cweb) Except for minor changes in Makefiles (-L's and -I's) there were no problems. However, I don't know how to test if everything is really ok ... in fact I have not been listening to this list since month's - so I don't even know what I tried to compile. ;-) Does anyone (Brad !!!) has a test script or something similar ? Brad, what problems did you encounter ? I am actually surprised that there were no problems at all on the SUN. Usually I am prepared for a lot of hacking when I try to port anything to our machines - maybe I can help ? c ya and may the --force be with you -thomas -- Sicheritz Ponten Thomas E. Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics blippblopp at linux.nu BMC, Uppsala University BMC: +46 18 4714214 BOX 590 S-751 24 UPPSALA Sweden Fax +46 18 557723 http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/~thomas Molecular Python: http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/~thomas/python Molecular Linux: http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/~thomas/mol_linux De Chelonian Mobile ... The Turtle Moves ...