Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] DB1x vs DB3x

[David E. <de...@us...>]

John R. Culleton wrote:

 > David Essex wrote:
 > ...
 >> Actually TC will work with any version of DB (1.85.4 2.x 3.x 4.x),
 >> however it only uses the DB 185 API.
 > ...
 > OK, but the ./configure step blows up with the following message
 >
 > Beginning DB library test link sequence
 > checking if db.h header belongs to version 1.x \(1.85-2\)... no
 > configure: error: header db.h for library db version 1.x \(1.85-2\)
 > not found... aborting
 >
 > So how do I fake out the configure?

That is a known problem usually found on RPM based systems.

The following configure option should fix the problem.

./configure --help
...
--with-libdb=[ARG] use DB library version (2 3 4)
...

Example:
./configure --with-libdb=db3