Re: orgmode and a database

[Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net>]

Hi,

On 04/05/2016 09:04 AM, Colin Baxter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 04/05/2016 06:43 AM, Colin Baxter wrote:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> I am looking for a sort of database I could use with orgmode. Anybody
>>>> has a suggestion? What's about recutils?
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>> Uwe Brauer
>>> I've just installed recutils from source. If you do the same then be
>>> aware that as well as the usual linux packages, you will also need
>>> "check", "uuid-dev" and "bash-builtins" for a successful build. Perhaps
>>> its obvious that they would be required, but its certainly not
>>> documented - at least as far as I could discover. Sorry that this was
>>> perhaps off-topic, but it might be useful for others.
>>>
>>> Colin.
>> What flavor or OS are you using? I had a Debian Jessie desktop
>> (recently relegated to the junk heap; it was a reclaimed from a 2000 -
>> 2001 machine which originally came with WindowsXT) and a LMDE2 laptop
>> (still in use and which I believe is based on Jessie) both of which
>> came with recutils-1.6, so last year  installed 1.7 from source on
>> both. As I recall I had no problems. Perhaps I loaded the packages you
>> mentioned at earlier time.
>>
>>
> Hi Charlie,
>
> recutils-1.7 on Debian 3.2.78-1 i686 GNU/Linux. It installed ok, but
> gave warnings on "make test". These disappeared on installing the
> packages I mentioned.
>
> Cheers, Colin.
>
I forgot!! Very conveniently, i might add. Last fall I discovered that 
although recutils-1.7 was apparently installed correctly, it was not. I 
could not use the readrec bash built-in. So I had to reinstall making 
sure that I downloaded all the other required packages that listed in 
the README-dev which Jose mentions in his recent message to this thread.