Re: (ITS#4913) configure & BerkleyDB

[hyc@symas.com]

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'
> 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

If that's exactly what you used, you're missing the "-" in CPPFLAGS="-I..."

> 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.

The configure script works perfectly fine with all 4.x releases of 
BerkeleyDB, including 4.6 which has not yet been publicly released.

This ITS will be closed.
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