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

[bcollins@debian.org]

On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 09:32:40AM +0000, jeffgus@zimage.com wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> 	I tried:
> 
> CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/include \
> LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/lib \
> 
> Same error:
> slapd[22000]: ldbm_db_errcall(): ==> illegal flag specified to db_appinit
> slapd[22000]: ldbm_initialize(): FATAL error in db_appinit() : Invalid
> argument  
> 
> 	The LDFLAGS should take priority, correct?

Did you do this for the configure? Make sure you start with a clean source tree and
run this:

CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/lib ./configure

Just as specified above.

Ben