[SOLVED] berkeley db not available

x201s · 07-12-2011, 12:29 PM

My open-ldap does not detect berkeley db.
When I wanted to install open-ldap, I got the following message:

Code:

checking for Berkeley DB major version in db.h... 5
checking for Berkeley DB minor version in db.h... 2
checking if Berkeley DB version supported by BDB/HDB backends... yes
checking for Berkeley DB link (default)... no
configure: error: BDB/HDB: BerkeleyDB not available

Google search gave me some hint:

Code:

CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.3/include"
export CPPFLAGS
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.3/lib -R/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.3/lib"
export LDFLAGS
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.3/lib"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

In my installation: berkley db is installed in /usr/local/
So I changed [CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.3/include"]
to [CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include"] and so on.

Yet, I still get
configure: error: BDB/HDB: BerkeleyDB not available

Env: open-ldap 2.4.43 and berkely db 5.2.28.
Chance of version mismatch?

bathory · 07-12-2011, 04:05 PM

Hi,

Quote:

Env: open-ldap 2.4.43 and berkely db 5.2.28.
Chance of version mismatch?

What is the default BerkeleyDB package available for your distro? If it's db-5.2.28, why don't you use that? Besides the configure script prints a "version mismatch" when it finds more than 1 BerkelyDB installations.
Anyway, check /usr/include/db.h (usually a symlink to the real db.h) to find the version

Code:

grep DB_VERSION /usr/include/db.h

If it's not what you want move it to a safe place and create a symlink to the db.h of the BerkeleyDB you want to use. e.g.

Code:

ln -s /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.3/include/db.h /usr/include

x201s · 07-15-2011, 03:34 AM

bathory:
Thank you for the tips. Particularly this:

Quote:

create a symlink to the db.h of the BerkeleyDB you want to use

The default BerkeleyDB package was 4.3.29 and my db.h was pointing to that one.
That opened the gate to my rescue

I needed two steps.

(1) do as your tip says
(2) plus, change the link for libraries.

If just (1), I went from "not finding bdb" to "version mismatch".
Once I copied the lib files to /usr/lib, and pointed the lib files to use the version I wanted to use, everything worked fine!

Feel so good now-- yet I can't forget the hopelessness I felt. Thanks to tips like yours and others, and also thanks to Google.