Re: Configure.in and SASL (ITS#536)

[bbense@networking.stanford.edu]

On Mon, 15 May 2000, Ben Collins wrote:

> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:48:28PM +0000, bbense@stanford.edu wrote:
> > Full_Name: Booker C. Bense
> > Version: current-dev
> > OS: Solaris 2.7
> > URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~bbense/booker-bense-000515.patch
> > Submission from: (NULL) (171.64.12.91)
> > 
> > 
> > - I have built and installed cyrus sasl 1.5.20 with sleepycat DB. This requires
> > that any code that uses -lsasl also use -ldb. A small patch to configure.in
> > fixes this in my case. I'm not sure it's generally the right thing to do. 
> > The configure.in patch is at 
> 
> This is wrong. You sasl library should be linked against the libraries it
> needs, not require other programs to handle it. When you build libsasl,
> add -ldb to it, and it should work fine.
> 

- This only works if you have a shared library version of db. I
probably should have one, but my current configuration doesn't. 

- Booker C. Bense