Comments on: Workbench on Linux

By: Danny D'Amours

Danny D'Amours — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:17:47 +0000

Any update on getting a patch to allow MySQL Workbench to install on Fedora without a lot of pain?

Even if it is still alpha, I’m looking forward to getting it up and running.

By: byte

byte — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:27:04 +0000

Yes, gcc 4.3 is stricter, and there are some fixes. I have a preliminary patch that works against Fedora 9, currently I’m just stuck with one thing that I can’t get fixed, so waiting till I fix that and will publish the patch

Another problem with an RPM spec file is cairo… Cairo in Fedora 9 isn’t built with glitz enabled by default. Cairo needs rebuilding, which I’ll have to speak with the cairo maintainer to see if it makes sense… (glitz = marked experimental)

And if you look at configure.in, there are options to build a “standard edition” and an “oss edition”. Its unclear what the future path is in terms of what sources we will build from. The standard edition costs $, so surely it can’t just be a build-time option.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:03:05 +0000

Tried to compile on Fedora, did not work well.

Fedora 9 has gcc 4.3 which is stricter and better.

Don’t understand why the code is developed on
such a old developement platform as ubuntu .8.04.

Some initial spec file work:

Some initialSummary: Visual database design tool for MySQL
Name: mysql-workbench
Version: 5.1.1
Release: 1%{?dist}
Group: Applications/Databases
License: GPLv2
URL: http://dev.mysql.com/workbench/
Source0: ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/%{name}-%{version}-alpha-linux.tar.gz
BuildRequires: automake autoconf libtool mysql-devel uuid-devel
BuildRequires: cairo-devel ctemplate-devel glib2-devel glitz-glx-devel gtkmm24-devel
BuildRequires: llibglade2-devel libgnome-devel ibsigc++20-devel lua-devel pcre-devel

BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
%description
Visual database design tool for MySQL.

%prep
%setup -q

%build
./autogen.sh
%configure
%{__make} %{?_smp_mflags}

%install
%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}
%{__make} install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}

%clean
%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}

%files
%defattr(-, root, root, -)
%doc ChangeLog COPYING README

%changelog