RPM build failure on Fedora

[David Relson]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 09:14:42 -0500
"Gordon Campbell" <gordon at cruachan.ca> wrote:

> I'm attempting to build an athlon-optimized rpm of 0.15.11 and it
> consistently fails with this error:
> 
>  
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb
> 
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
>  
> 
> I'm running an up to date installation of Fedora Core 1, with db4 and
> db4-devel installed. I combed the archives and tried everything that
> seemed even remotely applicable to no avail. Could someone please shed
> some light on this for me?

Hi Gordon,

Life on the bleeding edge, eh??  Find where file libdb-4.1.la resides
and use its path in "./configure
--with-db-prefix={directory_with_libdb-4.1.la}".  Let us know how it
goes.

David