Re: Berkeley DB cannot be found on Ubuntu

[Oswald B. <osw...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:13:53PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Dependencies always had to be specified _after_ the files depending on them.
> It usually works anyway because this is only enforced for static
> libraries (so presumably for some reason the static libdb is picked
> instead of the so), but that doesn't change that specifying the libs
> first is wrong and always has been.
> It is the reason to have separate LDFLAGS and LIBS variables.
>
right. i take everything back and claim the opposite. my autoconf-fu has
become a bit rusty ... :(
for a bit of extra confusion, automake's respective variable is LDADD,
and LIBADD for library targets.
it's also true that daniel's installation is somehow "weird".