compiling and berkeley db

[Adam Shand <larry@spack.org>]

hi,

i'm hoping tha t someone can shed some light on this because i've never
had this problem before.

i'm compiling openldap on a solaris 8 box using gcc 2.95. it requires
berkeley db 3 and of course berkeley db's always install into weird
places, in this case the package i snagged installed into
/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.0.  so in order for ./configure to find the
libraries i had to do this:

# export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.0/lib"
# export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.0/include

it all compiled fine, however now when i go to run the program it gives
me:

sunlab(root)# /usr/local/libexec/slapd 
ld.so.1: /usr/local/libexec/slapd: fatal: libdb-3.0.so: open failed: No such file or directory

and you can see that it can't find it:

sunlab(root)# ldd /usr/local/libexec/slapd 
        libdb-3.0.so =>  (file not found)

i suppose i can set some environment variable (LD_PATH or something
right?) in the script that starts slapd but that's kinda messed up, or i
can link libdb-3.0.so into /usr/lib but that's an accident waiting to
happen (though it's what i'm doing right now and solves the problem).

so the only other solution i can find is to pass "-R" to ld in the
makefile.  this seems like the correct solution but i've never had to do
this before when compiling stuff using libraries in non-standard
locations.  is this a deliberate choice of how openldap is setup or is
this an oddness of my setup?

in either case if it's not a bug what's the recommended solution?

thanks,
adam.