Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:32:48 -0800 From: Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Richard Morte <ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing GDBM_File (was: Location of GDBM_File in FreeBSD 3.2_Release) Message-ID: <v04210197b44e513bbf4d@[209.239.239.22]> In-Reply-To: <66974.942136600@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <66974.942136600@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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At 10:36 AM +0200 11/9/99, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 14:07:18 GMT, Richard Morte wrote: > >> > > $ perl Makefile.PL >> > > Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lgdbm >> > > Note (probably harmless): No library found for -ldbm > >Okay, so if you've got gdbm installed, then the only possible problem is >that whatever is trying to find it isn't looking in the right place. >Presumably, something in your Makefile.PL contains -lgdbm, which means >"link against a library called libgdbm. > >You need to add to that statement -L/usr/local/lib, which means "also >look for libraries in the path /usr/local/lib", since that's probably >where libgdbm is. That didn't work when I was building maildrop. I tried that __EXACT__ remedy right off the bat. The author was helping me through the whole process. >Don't take the advice you've been given about creating symlinks in /usr >-- it's messy and not good practice. :-) It was the only way that it worked for me. Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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