Cannot build dovecot with bdb support

[Mel]

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 13:32:59 Nicolas Letellier wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:27:04 -0900
>
> Mel <fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 January 2009 07:47:53 Nicolas Letellier wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > I use FreeBSD-6.3. I want to install dovecot port with dbd support.
> > > However, that's impossible. See my error:
> > >
> > > hecking for pam/pam_appl.h... no
> > > checking for pam_setcred in -lpam... yes
> > > checking for auth_userokay... no
> > > checking db_env_create in -ldb... no
> > > configure: error: Can't build with db support: libdb not found
> > > ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> > > Please report the problem to yds at CoolRat.org [maintainer] and attach
> > > the "/usr/ports/mail/dovecot/work/dovecot-1.1.8/config.log" including
> > > the
> >
> > The answer is in there. Works for me with db46. Could you show the part
> > of config.log where it says it fails?
> > Search for "checking db_env_create in -ldb" and anything below that will
> > be helpful.
>
> I built db46 port, but I was the same error whel building dovecot...
> The log says:
>
> configure:27631: checking db_env_create in -ldb
> configure:27660: cc -o conftest -std=gnu99 -O2 -pipe -march=pentium4
> -I/usr/local/include/db41 -L/usr/local/lib -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -W
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith
> -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/local/include
> -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c  -ldb >&5 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb


-L/usr/local/lib/db41 is missing above. Not entirely sure why that is.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.