Re: Berkeley DB cannot be found on Ubuntu

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

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 08:58:07AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> But the BDB detection code in configure doesn't even use -ldb??
> I.e. it does not link at all to the library.
>
yes, there was a report about the test being a tad too optimistic a few
weeks ago, so i made sure it actually tries to link a symbol. that
exposed this long-standing ordering problem. we have two hypotheses why
this problem is actute, rather than hypothetical, as one might expect: a
behavior change of the linker (i suppose that would be specific to the
version or configuration of binutils under ubuntu, as i didn't find any
relevant upstream changelog entries), or the dynamic library not being
used for some reason (maybe the unversioned .so symlink is missing? i've
seen such problems a long time ago).