Re: 2.0.1 configure script.

[Mark . Burgess]

On 17 Apr, Michael Beattie wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:27:56PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
>> 
>> This has proven to be much more complicated than one would think.
>> So far, all of the suggested "solutions" have broken something for
>> someone. I would be happy to receive a patch which addresses all the
>> issues.
> 
> What are some of these issues? I really just need details so I can get
> this right the first time :)
> 
> Autoconf itself has good support for finding libraries.
> 
> Mike.


Ok, briefly. DB and openssl are not standard OS except on linux etc.
Those versions whcih are installed in linux are not always the right
versions. 

Need DB 3.2 or later
     openssl  0.9.6b or later

It is no longer possible to compile without these.

That means most people get these tarballs and install them. These
then go into

/usr/local/ssl/*
           BerkeleyDB3.2/* (etc)
           BerkeleyDB4.0/*

which must be searched first so that new installs override older versions etc.

Now RedHat stores the libraries in various versions as libdb libdb2 libdb3
in various locations /usr/local/include/(db[2|3]) etc.

In short, linux has screwed this up by putting the packages in
bizarre locations. My original solution was to insist on
/usr/local installations, but I have tried to incorporate others'
patches. This does not seem to have helped, since there are so
many variations that it is a mess,

Mark

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