Re: cfengine 2.1 configure problem on linux Redhat 9

[Hans Deragon]

Eric Sorenson <eric@explosive.net> wrote in message 
news:<mailman.604.1059421829.8231.help-cfengine@gnu.org>...
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Alex Zlatsin wrote:
> 
> > Found the configure problem when running cfengine 2.1.0a6 configure on
> > linux RH9. Error: Berkeleydb not found, but it was installed, version
> > 4.0.
> > 
> > The fix is to change line 7577 in configure file to:
> > 
> >  if test -f "$d/include/$v/db.h" -a -f "$d/lib/lib$v.so" ; then
> > 
> > from:
> >  if test -f "$d/include/$v/db.h" ; then
> 
> Par for the course for BerkeleyDB there are a couple of different
> problems with it on rh9, one of which I believe is redhat's fault and
> not autoconf/configure.ac. I get the message :
> 
> configure: error: This release of cfengine requires BerkeleyDB 3.2 or later
> 
> Even though both db4 and db4-devel are installed.  Is this the
> same thing you're seeing?  The problematic test is this one:
> 
> ++ echo configure:7658: 'gcc -o conftest -pthread -g -O2
> -I/usr/include/db4 -pthread     conftest.c -lm  -ldb4 >&5'
> 
> The '-ldb4' option is (reasonably, I think) derived from the fact that
> the include files are located in '/usr/include/db4'. However this doesn't 
> work because there is no file or symlink in ld's search path that
> is named 'libdb4.so'.  
> 
> I'll open a bug on bugzilla.redhat.com about this, it's annoying.

Have you opened a bug report on bugzilla.redhat.com?  I searched their
bugzilla database for Berkeley but could not find anything related to
this particular problem.

It would be nice if cfengine could be installed on Red Hat without a
problem.

Best regards,
Hans Deragon
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