New BIND releases ... 9.16.4: build, 'fatal error: lmdb.h: No such file or directory'

[PGNet Dev]

On 6/17/20 9:48 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Virtually everybody except upstream has modified LMDB to follow a normal directory layout and BIND expect that.
> You should just move the header files and library to /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib respectively.

That's just a silly statement.

1st, /usr/local/lib is NOT a 'normal directory' layout for a number of distros -- /usr/local/lib64 is.  That assumption in bind's code is just wrong.

Software should link against the libs, and include the headers, you TELL it to -- not what it arbitrarily 'expects'.

Finally, if that's BIND's 'expectation', why does bind even have a =path config option for it?

What's the basis for arbitrary choice of bind using pkg-config for some pkgs, providing well-functioning _CFLAGS/_LDFLAGS/_LIBS overrides for others -- but in the case of lmdb, neither -- just an 'expectation'?