Re: openldap on Linux/alpha (ITS#295)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

jeffgus@zimage.com wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> 
> > At 03:03 AM 9/18/99 GMT, jeffgus@zimage.com wrote:
> > >> I believe this is caused by using an incompatible version of
> > >> BerkeleyDB.  OpenLDAP requires BerkeleyDB 2.7.5 or later
> > >> (available from http://www.sleepycat.com/).
> > >>
> > >
> > >     Hmmm.  I'll try it.  I'm using RH6.0 and OpenLDAP works fine on
> > >the Intel version.  It's only when I tried to run it on the Alpha did I
> > >have this problem.  I assumed the db versions would be the same since I'm
> > >running RH6.0 on both Intel and Alpha.
> >
> > Or they might just fail in different ways...  If 2.7.5 (or later)
> > should work.  If not, we'll have to dig a little.
> >
> > Kurt
> >
> 
>         Okay I verified that RH6.0 uses the libdb that comes with glibc.
> The version happens to be 2.4.14.  I didn't see anywhere in the FAQ on how
> to get OpenLDAP to compile against a different version of DB on a glibc
> system.  Any tricks?  Some sort of --with-db=/usr/local/BerkleyDB??
> 
>                                 ...Jeff
Use CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS.  See INSTALL and http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?file=43