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

[John R. C. <jo...@we...>]

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 09:40 pm, David Essex wrote:
> 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

The working line is  a tad different:

 ./configure --with-libdb=3

But thanks for putting me on the right path.

BTW I run Slackware. NO RPMs here. 
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