Re: [O] orgmode and a database

[Colin Baxter]

> 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.