make failed with FreeBSD 4.8-R & db41

[Russ Allbery]

Gea-Suan Lin <gslin at ccca.nctu.edu.tw> writes:

> I have installed BerkeleyDB 4.1 from ports and got some problem.

Why is it that every different packaging of BerkeleyDB puts it in a
completely different location?

> I found it's because some settings in Makefile.global aren't correct:

> BERKELEY_DB_CFLAGS = -I/usr/local/include
> EXTSTORAGELIBS  = -ldb

> It should be:

> BERKELEY_DB_CFLAGS = -I/usr/local/include/db41
> EXTSTORAGELIBS  = -ldb41

> Does anybody have good idea to solve this ?

You can edit Makefile.global after you run configure.  That's the
simplest, but sort of annoying.

Alternately, you could apply the following patch and run configure:

--- configure.in        2003/02/01 21:42:22     1.244
+++ configure.in        2003/08/12 14:59:57     1.244.2.1
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-dnl $Id: configure.in,v 1.244 2003/02/01 21:42:22 rra Exp $
+dnl $Id: configure.in,v 1.244.2.1 2003/08/12 14:59:57 rra Exp $
 dnl
 dnl Please try to follow GNU conventions and autoconf manual conventions as
 dnl much as possible in this file so that any macros we develop can be easily
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ dnl bother checking for it.  Compile-tim
 dnl useful information for someone debugging a problem than configure-time
 dnl errors.
 
-AC_REVISION($Revision: 1.244 $)dnl
+AC_REVISION($Revision: 1.244.2.1 $)dnl
 AC_PREREQ(2.13)
 AC_INIT(Makefile.global.in)
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(support)
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ else
         done
     fi
     if test x"$BERKELEY_DB_DIR" = xyes ; then
-        for v in db4 db3 db2 ; do
+        for v in db41 db4 db3 db2 ; do
             if test -d "/usr/local/include/$v" ; then
                 BERKELEY_DB_LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"
                 BERKELEY_DB_CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/$v"
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ else
             fi
         done
         if test x"$BERKELEY_DB_LIB" = x ; then
-            for v in db4 db3 db2 ; do
+            for v in db41 db4 db3 db2 ; do
                 if test -d "/usr/include/$v" ; then
                     BERKELEY_DB_CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/$v"
                     BERKELEY_DB_LIB="-l$v"

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