[Gambas-user] Build from source on Debian 10 Buster

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 03/05/2020 à 01:25, Bruce a écrit :
> 
> 
> On 3/5/20 2:41 am, KKing wrote:
>> When I tried << Step 3. Install these packages : $ sudo apt install
>> build-essential g++ automake autoconf libbz2-dev [...] I got
>> 
>> <<but it responds E: Unable to locate package
>> postgresql-server-dev-9.6 E: Couldn't find any package by glob
>> 'postgresql-server-dev-9.6' E: Couldn't find any package by regex
>> 'postgresql-server-dev-9.6' E: Unable to locate package
>> libgnome-keyring-dev
>>>> 
>> 
> 
> That list does not look right for buster, if it were me I'd go back
> to the requirements on the generic install from source page and work
> out the proper package requirements for buster. For example: buster
> uses postgresql v11 (a Gianluigi pointed out) - the correct client
> side library is "libpq5" not libpq, also

Yes, the package list in
https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml is more up
to date.

When it is not accurate, I get a message from gitlab CI system, and I
usually try to fix it as soon as possible.

> I don't see why postgresql-server-dev is included at all, that's the 
> headers for programming the postgres server?
> 

Because the postgres developers put in the server development packages
an include file that is needed on the client side. No idea why.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini