Compiling problems

[David Relson]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 09:03:31 +0300
Florin Braescu wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
>   I have a system with 2.6.8.1 kernel, gcc 3.4.1, glibc 2.3.3 with
>   nptl 
> support and db 4.2.52. I have tried to install the new bogofilter
> 0.92.5 version. It fails with a message saying that it cannot link
> with the libdb.
>   I attach here the config.log file. Thank you for the support.
> 
>   Florin

Hi Florin,

Here's the relevant section of config.log:

configure:11372: gcc -o conftest -O3 -mtune=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp
-funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse,387
 -Wpointer-arith -ggdb -Wall -W -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wshadow -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings
-Waggregate-return -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-format-attribute
-Wnested-externs -fno-common -Wchar-subscripts -Wcomment -Wimplicit
-Wsequence-point -Wreturn-type -Wno-system-headers -Wformat   -s
conftest.c -lm  >&5
conftest.c:83:16: db.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c:86: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
conftest.c: In function `main':
conftest.c:87: warning: implicit declaration of function `db_version'
conftest.c:87: warning: nested extern declaration of `db_version'
configure:11378: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:

The significant line is:

  conftest.c:83:16: db.h: No such file or directory

Looks like you need to locate db.h on your system and then use
configure's "--with-libdb-prefix=DIR" option.

My workstation has files:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Jun  6 14:07 /usr/include/db.h -> db4/db.h
-r--r--r--  1 root root 75839 Feb 26 18:54 /usr/include/db4/db.h

Since /usr/include is a standard location known to gcc, ./configure
doesn't need help finding it.  I notice that your PATH includes
/opt/lunar and /usr/local.  On your system, ./configure may need an
option like "--with-libdb-prefix=/usr/local" or
"--with-libdb-prefix=/opt/lunar/db"

HTH,

David

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