From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Millar Subject: Re: orgmode and a database Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:02:36 -0400 Message-ID: <5703C57C.6030804@verizon.net> References: <87shz1f97s.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87pou42v4r.fsf@yandex.com> <5703A459.4000807@verizon.net> <87lh4s2omp.fsf@yandex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anRZI-0006TC-He for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:03:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anRZF-0003b8-C0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:02:56 -0400 Received: from vms173011pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.11]:65367) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anRZF-0003b4-7X for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:02:53 -0400 Received: from vz-proxy-l006.mx.aol.com ([64.236.82.154]) by vms173011.mailsrvcs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.32.0 64bit (built Jul 16 2014)) with ESMTPA id <0O5500BWXZ0DZ260@vms173011.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:02:37 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: <87lh4s2omp.fsf@yandex.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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.