Re: cfengine 2.1 configure problem on linux Redhat 9

[Eric Sorenson]

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.

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    Eric Sorenson - EXPLOSIVE Networking - http://explosive.net