Re: configure: error: Berkeley DB version mismatch

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Friday, September 17, 2004 9:32 AM +1000 Cameron Gregg 
<cam@yak.com.au> wrote:

> > Why not? Because if you set up your build environment correctly, and
> > pass in the correct parameters to your compiler,
>
> well, as far as I can tell, i have been doing this, I can't figure out
> why its not finding it.
>
> > there is no need to
> > play games like this, that's why...
>
> yes, i would prefer a 'clean' system.

Have you tried installing things into /usr/local/[bin,lib,sbin,man,etc]

?

There is a nice program called stow (and there are other ones like it), 
that let you build software in something like the following way (this is 
how I do it at Stanford):

For BDB:

configure
make
make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/db4-4.2.52.2

(I add the .2 for the 2 patches I added in).

This will create the directory: /usr/local/stow/db-4.2.52.2 with all the 
BDB stuff inside of there.  Then you use the stow utility to link it in to 
the /usr/local area:

stow db4-4.2.52.2

Then you build your next package, stow it, etc.  And you can create nice 
little tarballs of what you built, so you can easily re-install the 
packages anywhere.  And upgrading to a new version is a snap.  Just stow -D 
the old version, and then stow the new one (stow -D openldap-2.2.15, stow 
openldap-2.2.17).  Boom, I'm done upgrading the server. ;)


As for compiler flags, etc...

Here is what I use for OpenLDAP:

CC=/usr/pubsw/bin/gcc CXX=/usr/pubsw/bin/g++ CFLAGS='-O2' CXXFLAGS='-O2' sh 
configure --datadir='${prefix}/lib' --libexecdir='${prefix}/lib' 
--sharedstatedir='${prefix}/lib' \
   --prefix=/usr/local \
   --disable-ipv6 \
   --with-cyrus-sasl \
   --with-kerberos \
   --with-tls \
   --enable-monitor \
   --enable-dynamic \
   --enable-phonetic \
   --enable-slapd \
       --enable-spasswd \
       --enable-rlookups \
       --enable-wrappers \
       --enable-hdb \
       --with-dyngroup=yes \
       --with-proxycache=yes


For building:

env LD_RUN_PATH="/location/to/bdb/libs /usr/local/lib" make depend
env LD_RUN_PATH="/location/to/bdb/libs /usr/local/lib" make

Since you put BDB in a non-standard location, you might add this to the 
configure line as well:

LD_RUN_PATH="/location/to/bdb/libs /usr/local/lib"

You may also need to play with include-related compiler flags.

--Quanah

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