make failed with FreeBSD 4.8-R & db41

[Kai Henningsen]

rra at stanford.edu (Russ Allbery)  wrote on 12.08.03 in <87r83q2a9m.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>:

> 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?

Presumably because it doesn't come with good defaults (epecially for the  
case of several concurrent versions).

Unfortunately, there's also no inquire script like in glib, or a standard  
autoconf macro ...

Keith's proposal of including a version seems more attractive by the  
minute.

MfG Kai