Compiling in Red hat 6.2

[Emmanuel Seyman]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:06:01PM +0100, Paulo Jan wrote:
> 
> checking for db_create in -ldb-3... no
> checking for db_create in -ldb3... no

On RHL 6.2, you'll have to test for -ldb-3.1
or make the following symlink:

ln -s /usr/lib/db-3.1.so /usr/lib/db-3.so

> 	I have checked, and apparently the /usr/lib/libdb.so link belongs to 
> the glibc-devel package. Does anybody knows if messing with it (pointing 
> it to the other library) can cause any harm? How can I check if there 
> are any existing programs that depend on it? All of this is in a Red Hat 
> Linux 6.2, as I said.

This is db2 (which on RHL 6.2 belongs to the glibc and glibc-devel rpms).
Rpm v3 uses this to make the rpm database and I would *seriously* recommend
you not mess with it.

Emmanuel