Re: Berkeley DB cannot be found on Ubuntu

[Chris N. <cne...@po...>]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 23:27:09 +0000, daniel szmulewicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While building mbsync from the git repo, I see:
> 
> Using SSL
> Using SASL
> Using zlib
> Not using Berkeley DB
> 
> This doesn't make sense to me as Berkeley DB is installed as far as I'm
> concerned.
> The config.log reveals:
> 
> configure:4723: checking for Berkeley DB >= 4.1
> configure:4745: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -pipe -W -Wall -Wshadow
> -Wstrict-prototypes -ansi -pedantic -Wno-overlength-strings  -D_GNU_SOURCE
>      -ldb conftest.c  >&5
> conftest.c:34:1: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> [-Wstrict-prototypes]
>  main ()
>  ^
> /tmp/ccaGDsAw.o: In function `main':
> /home/daniel/isync-isync/conftest.c:37: undefined reference to `db_create'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> So the linker cannot find the required function. Interesting.

Do you have the requisite -dev package installed? And you're right, you
shouldn't guess: order has nothing to do with it.

-- 
Chris Nehren