If you're building on Unix flavors (Mac OS-X, Linux and any Unix, which I've tried), I think HowToStart.rst provides good information regarding the default settings. The sql front end is already enabled by default, as far as I can tell. I built with the default configuration settings (on Unix-based systems), and was able to run the sql front end and use it. Most sql I've written so far against the test database seem to work, and the explain command is fantastic, and now I would like to learn more about the internals. (VOC database here: http://www.monetdb.org/Downloads/Tutorial) Most significant issue to which I ran in building MonetDB (from a clone of its mercurial repository) on Unix flabors was ensuring that the right libraries were generally not already installed or only partially installed. On Mac OS-X, one uses MacPorts. On Linux/Debian, apt-get worked fine. It is time-consuming to install all the needed libraries on a brand-new, clean system. On Mac OS-X, I also had to change a symbolic link to a library because the library had two instances and the build system was picking it up from a place where the instance was compiled for the wrong architecture (under Lion). The "otool" command was useful in determining the architecture of the libraries on Mac, e.g. otool -fv /usr/lib/libiconv.dylib Best regards, Masood Message: 1

Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:36:36 -0400 From: Medha Atre To: Communication channel for MonetDB users Subject: --enable-sql option at the time of compilation Message-ID: < CAPsfZ1Tb7BioyJVrdsBx4V6G2iBM-UPRZmMCMLMOpPCCRi4wpg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Hi,

Is it necessary to give --enable-sql option at the time of compilation if one wants to use SQL as the query language or does it have some other connotation? The reason for asking is, if I give --enable-sql option, the configure script compels me to give --enable-monetdb5 option too.

I am not sure how these options make difference internally to the MonetDB server, since as per the MonetDB website SQL is the de facto language for querying DBs and that is what is used by MonetDB as well.

Can someone please enlighten?

Thanks. Medha

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