Re: --enable-bdb=no not working?

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Steve Birnie wrote:
> I'm trying to install openldap on ubuntu.  The reason is because we have 
> multiple servers and would like to use ldap to reduce the userid 
> management.  I am already running mysql, so I thought I would use the 
> existing db instead of installing bdb also.
>
> I tried using "apt-get install slapd", but I think that comes compiled 
> without --enable-sql=yes because when I try to start it up I get 
> "Unrecognized database type (sql)".
>
> So I downloaded version 2.4.9 to build it manually.  I tried running 
> "./configure --enable-bdb=no --enable-sql=yes", but that gives me the 
> error message "configure: error: BDB/HDB: BerkeleyDB not available".  I 
> don't understand why I would get this message if I set --enable-bdb=no.
>
> Am I not including all the right configuration parameters?

I think it's because Berkeley is needed by back-bdb and by back-hdb, as 
the error message says; you need to disable both to skip checking for 
Berkeley's DB availability.

p.



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