From 7e950fd2e3f78b1d55ce85057667fbb088e61780 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Stimming Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:39:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Make error message on missing more verbose. Also mention the infamous dbi database drivers here, https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2011-February/031171.html git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@20420 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd --- configure.ac | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index e428e65b9f..79373b72e3 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -575,7 +575,14 @@ then LIBDBI_LIBS=-ldbi DBI_DIR=dbi else - AC_MSG_ERROR( Unable to find dbi/dbi.h ) + AC_MSG_ERROR([ + + Unable to find . Either install the libdbi development + package (such as libdbi0-dev), or switch off the database backend of + gnucash by --disable-dbi. + Note: If you install libdbi, you should also install its database + drivers (such as libdbd-sqlite3 libdbd-mysql libdbd-pgsql). +]) fi fi AC_SUBST(LIBDBI_LIBS)