Re: (ITS#4913) configure & BerkleyDB

[ando@sys-net.it]

fredo@sundancer.us wrote:
> Full_Name: Fred Obermann
> Version: 2.3.34
> OS: linux
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (24.20.15.25)
> 
> 
> I just downloaded, built and installed openldap-2.3.34 using BerkeleyDB-4.5.20.
> 
> 
> There seems to be a disconnect between where openldap-2.3.34 'configure' expects
> db.h is and where Oracle's build procedure puts db.h. 
> 
> For 4.5.20, db.h is located in "/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.5/include". Setting:
> CPPFLAGS="I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.5/include", prior to invoking 'configure'

Perhaps adding a "-" before "I" could help.  Please check and report.


> does not seem to enable 'configure' to find 'db.h'. Providing soft link from
> /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.5/include/db.h to /usr/include seems to fix this
> problem
> 
> Furthermore there seems to be a disconnect between the Oracle naming convention
> for the BerkeleyDB libraries and what openldap's 'configure' utility seems to
> expect.
> 
> I set:
> LIBS=-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.5/lib prior to invoking 'configure' 
> 
> But 'configure' is looking for libdb45.a or libdb-45.a or libdb4.5.a.  
> 
> However, what the Oracle build procedure produces are:  libdb-4.5.a 
> libdb-4.5.la  libdb-4.5.so  libdb-4.so  libdb.a  libdb.so
> 
> Creating a soft link from libdb-4.5.a  to libdb45.a seems to fix this problem.
> 
> Nonetheless, it would be better if the 'configure' script were expanded to
> gracefully handle this latest release of BerkeleyDB from Oracle.
> 
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