From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 28 10:46:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDC5A14C0E for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:46:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpr@vcnet.com) Received: from [209.239.239.22] by mail.vcnet.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO203-101c) ID# 0-39954U2500L250S0) with ESMTP id AAA23241 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:43:20 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:43:19 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jon Rust Subject: gdbm not found, but installed ?? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have gdbm installed from the ports collection: rhap:~/apps/maildrop-0.65{18} $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/ | grep gdb -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 48898 Jul 26 14:06 libgdbm.a lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Jul 26 14:06 libgdbm.so@ -> libgdbm.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 25353 Jul 26 14:06 libgdbm.so.2* But when I run configure (for maildrop .65) it can't find it: rhap:~/apps/maildrop-0.65{19} $ ./configure --with-gdbm creating cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal... found checking for working autoconf... found checking for working automake... found checking for working autoheader... found checking for working makeinfo... found checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes checking for gawk... gawk checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works...yes checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for POSIXized ISC... no checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... c++ -E checking for AIX... no checking for minix/config.h... no checking for gccmakedep... gccmakedep checking for strip... strip checking for -fhandle-exceptions flag to g++... yes checking for getpwnam in -lsun... no checking for gdbm_open in -lgdbm... no checking for gdbm_open... no configure: error: GDBM library not found Furthermore, the maildrop package can't find plain ol' db libs either: rhap:~/apps/maildrop-0.65/bdbobj{22} $ make *** Did not find db library. If libdb is in a nonstandard *** directory, rerun configure. *** Error code 1 Stop. rhap:~/apps/maildrop-0.65/bdbobj{23} # ls -l /usr/local/lib | grep libdb -r--r--r-- 1 root man 450120 Jul 26 13:45 libdb2.a I tried creating a symlink for libdb.a to point to libdb2.a, but it didn't help. What am I missing? Thanks, jon _____________________________________________________ |Jon Rust | VCNet, Inc |(805) 383-3500| |jpr@vcnet.com | | www.vcnet.com| |---------------------------------------------------| | Failure is not an option | | It comes bundled with your Microsoft product | |___________________________________________________| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message