From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Colin Baxter Subject: Re: orgmode and a database Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 14:49:15 +0100 Message-ID: <878u0s2mjo.fsf@yandex.com> References: <87shz1f97s.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87pou42v4r.fsf@yandex.com> <87vb3w8azq.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anRMi-000705-PW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:49:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anRMd-0005ps-1l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:49:56 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56190) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1anRMc-0005pl-R4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 09:49:50 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1anRMX-0004tz-Rq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:49:45 +0200 Received: from host86-131-0-175.range86-131.btcentralplus.com ([86.131.0.175]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:49:45 +0200 Received: from m43cap by host86-131-0-175.range86-131.btcentralplus.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:49:45 +0200 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 > > 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. > > These dependencies are documented in the README-dev file at the top > directory of the recutils source distribution. Excerpt: > > Dependencies > ------------ > There are some third party dependencies needed to build some of the > utilities shipped in this distribution. The configure script checks > for the needed packages and drives the conditional compilation of the > impacted utitilities. The dependencies are: > - The testing infrastructure uses the Check library. At the moment > the svn version of the library if needed. The configure script will > check if you have the right version. libcheck can be obtained at > http://sourceforge.net/projects/check/. > > The following dependencies are optional. Missing them will result in > a less capable software: > - The GNU Privacy Guard (gnupg) is required in order to support > encryption. The following libraries are required: libgpg-error and > libgcrypt. Any recent version of those libraries will work. gnupg > can be obtained at http://gnupg.org. > - libcurl is required for supporting remote descriptors. Any > recent version must work. The library can be obtained at > http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/. > - The mdbtools are required for building the mdb2rec utility. > mdbtools can be obtained at http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net. > - The UUID library from Theodore Ts'o is required for the uuid type. > In Debian-like systems that library is packaged under the name > uuid-dev and the runtime under the name libuuid1. > - The algol68toc compiler is required for building the Algol68 > bindings. I'm afraid my recutils from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/recutils/recutils-1.7.tar.gz had no REDADME.dev. It did have a README, which mentions README.dev but no README.dev.