FreeBSD [Re: RPM Upgrade]

[David Relson]

At 01:26 PM 5/22/03, Sam Hills wrote:


>>>Ditto.  My ISP is running FreeBSD v2, and I have yet to successfully 
>>>build bogofilter from sources or install from a package.
>>>Every time I try, I get a fatal error during configure (usually 
>>>something regarding BerkeleyDB, which configure can't find even though 
>>>I've specified --with-db, CPPFLAGS, LIBS, LDFLAGS and LD_LIBRARY_PATH).
>>>
>>>I would _love_ to have a pre-built version that I could simply upload 
>>>and run!!!
>>
>>
>>Sam,
>>
>>Sometimes a link from db.h to db3/db3.h in /usr/include helps.
>>
>>Relevant lines from my linux box are:
>>
>>/usr/include:
>>.... db3
>>.... db.h -> db3/db.h
>>
>>David
>
>I've already got db.h  symlinked as db3.h.
>Are you saing I need to create a db3 directory under include and put db.h 
>in there too?
>(I'm just a user on my ISP's box.  My db.h resides in 
>$HOME/usr/local/include.)

Sam,

No.  I was just guessing at what might be wrong.  /usr/local/include should 
be fine.  The configure process on Linux needs to find db.h (somewhere in 
the INCLUDE_PATH) and I assume it's much the same on FreeBSD.  Have you 
looked at config.log to learn more about what's actually failing?

David