Compiling BIND 9.21.22+ on NetBSD 10.x

[Carsten Strotmann]

Sorry, I've mixed the version number, I meant

  9.21.22 (Development Release) 

Carsten


On Wednesday 20 May 2026 04:35:22 PM (+02:00), Carsten Strotmann via 
bind-users wrote:

 > Hi,
 > 
 > maybe this can be of help for someone running BIND 9 on NetBSD 10.x:
 > 
 > the new BIND 9.22.21 release does have a hard dependency for "lmdb" 
(lightweight database).
 > 
 > On NetBSD, "lmdb" can be installed with "pkgin in lmdb". However, this 
"lmdb" package does not contain a "pkg-config" file with information on how 
to compile against "lmdb". 
 > The BIND 9 "meson" build-setup process might fail with 
 > meson.build:910:11: ERROR: Dependency "lmdb" not found, tried pkgconfig 
and cmake 
 > as it cannot find "lmdb".
 > 
 > I found that manually creating a file "/usr/pkg/lib/pkgconfig/lmdb.pc" 
with the content
 > 
 > ----
 > # Package Information for pkg-config
 > 
 > prefix=/usr/pkg
 > exec_prefix=${prefix}
 > libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
 > includedir=${prefix}/include
 > 
 > Name: LMDB
 > Description:  Lightning Memory-mapped key-value database
 > Version: 0.9.35
 > Libs: -Wl,-R${libdir} -L${libdir} -llmdb
 > Libs.private: -lm -lpthread
 > Cflags: -I${includedir}
 > 
 > ----
 > 
 > will create a manual workaround, and BIND 9.22.21 will compile 
successfully.
 > 
 > Greetings
 > 
 > Carsten Strotmann
 > -- 
 > https://strotmann.de



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