RE: configure: error: Berkeley DB version mismatch

["Tay, Gary" <Gary_Tay@platts.com>]

Thanks for your clarification, I certainly like to receive your
comments. Your points are valid. I may be used to some "less techies"
maillist where subscribers post all kinds of info, verified or junked or
not, and I really know more now as the result of sharing my "not so
sure" experience.

1) As u may or may NOT be aware, a lot of Solaris8 machines do not have
GNU's binutils package (www.sunfreeware.com) installed BY DEFAULT, and
therefore do not have GNU's ld, I don't have it on my Solaris8 box,
Cameron seems to have it as he has /usr/local/bin/make.

However I can't find binutils package for Solaris9, and I could not find
Solaris9 version of /usr/local/bin/ld on my Solaris9 box, Where is your
Solaris9 GNU version of ld come from? Did u use the Solaris8 version of
binutils package for Solaris9?

# uname -r; find /usr -name ld -ls
5.9
374330    9 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin          8940 Apr  6  2002
/usr/ccs/bin/ld
473391   12 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin         11736 Apr  6  2002
/usr/ccs/bin/sparcv9/ld
27600    1 drwxr-xr-x   3 root     bin           512 Aug 26  2002
/usr/lib/ld
1018353    2 -r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin          1830 Apr  6  2002
/usr/ucb/ld

2) I would like to share this comment from www.sunfreeware.com with all
of us:

"binutils-2.11.2-sol8-sparc-local.gz This GNU package includes the GNU
versions of the ld, as, ar, nm, ranlib, strip, strings and other
programs - installs in /usr/local. With some compiles, the use of Sun
versions of these programs may be better. The Sun versions of these
utilities come from the developer SUNW packages from the Solaris CDs and
are installed in /usr/ccs/bin. Which set of utilies gets used depends on
whether /usr/local/bin (GNU) or /usr/ccs/bin (Sun) are first in the PATH
environmental variable."

3) As Cameron seems to use Solaris8 GNU's make (/usr/local/bin/make) and
SUN's ld (/usr/ccs/bin/ld), could u comment if this is OK? 

I think I prefer to follow the advice of sunfreeware, or logically have
tallied version of make and ld, be it SUN's or GNU's.

Rgds
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:quanah@stanford.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 1:41 PM
To: Tay, Gary; OpenLDAP Software List; cam@yak.com.au
Subject: RE: configure: error: Berkeley DB version mismatch




--On Thursday, September 16, 2004 11:22 AM +0800 "Tay, Gary" 
<Gary_Tay@platts.com> wrote:

> Let me clarify:
>
> 1) There is no issue of GNU make in Solaris "9" as Solaris "9" comes 
> with GNU make and gcc and I use them also, I am not sure if there is 
> issue with GNU make with Solaris "8", but some tips from Google 
> advised me to use /usr/ccs/bin/make on Solaris "8" so that the object 
> files generated have less issue when they are linked with 
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld, again I may NOT be correct.

Let me clarify then:

I've built BDB, Heimdal Kerberos, Cyrus-SASL, and OpenLDAP on: Solaris
2.6 Solaris 7 Solaris 8 Solaris 9

All with GNU make, all with gcc, and all with GNU ld.

I've used:

gcc-2.96
gcc-3.3.1
gcc-3.4.1

All of those worked just fine.  There is no issue with any GNUs usage.
It 
really comes down to how well someone knows how to build software, which

can be confusing and problematic.  It isn't helped by the fact that many

OS's distribute outdated versions of the requisite software, especially 
OpenLDAP and BDB.  Learning to build software is an experience.
However, 
misdirection focus on the wrong things also doesn't help matters any.  I
do 
understand you are giving the best answers you know, based on the 
experiences you have had.  But I also want to make sure you understand
that 
the issues you are presenting are not really issues.  I make assumptions

sometimes and I've been corrected plenty of times about my mistaken 
assumptions on this list as well. ;)

You might find the site I maintain about how I build OpenLDAP helpful.

<http://www.stanford.edu/services/directory/openldap>

--Quanah

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