Re: GnuCOBOL 3.1-rc1 on FreeBSD

[Bruno Haible]

Vince Coen wrote:
> Once is quite enough.
> 
> The reason is that there is more than one option as to what library will 
> be used i.e., at least four.
> 
> So there is a default and after that you have to specify your system 
> configuration including such things as xml2 json etc.

Without the option --without-db, the configuration ended with the error
message "Berkeley DB db.h is missing". If there were 4 possible DB
implementations on the system,
  - configure should not have said "Berkeley DB db.h is missing",
  - configure should have picked one (I don't mind which one).

> You seem  to have a lot of errors so the question to be asked is did the 
> build of the Cobol compiler complete without any errors ?

Yes, "make" completed without errors.

> IF not then you need to deal with this and most likely it relates to 
> missing required libraries as outlined in the documentation.