#152 Makefile doesn't find libgdbm.a and libgdbm_compat.a on Debian Jessie

[Bernard Hurley]

In Debian Jessie the files libgdbm.a and libgdbm_compat.a live in directories with names like /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ - i.e. in a subdirectory that indicates the architecture. This is so that in multiacrch systems like mine you can have more than one version of them. As a consequence the Makefile, as distributed, can't find them. It's easy to edit it, one off, as I have done for my system but I'm not sure what the best solution in general is (especially as there are other architectures that Debian runs on)

[High Performance Coder]

If you an determine at runtime what the relevant architecture
directory is, then add the appropriate directory as a -L parameter to
LIB.

Alternatively, you could try adding both directories to the LIB
parameter - ld is generally smart enough to link to the correct
architecture.

Finally, it is better installing Berkley DB (libdb-dev), as this is a
superior database backend to gdbm. We could, perhaps disable the gdbm
code altogether, unless specifically enabled by the user for
backwards compatibility.

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[Bernard Hurley]

None of the recent Debian releases contain db4. In fact you can't even find it on their web page. ecolib links against db5.3 so I suppose that will be OK.

[High Performance Coder]

Fixed by expanding the list of directories Make searches.