On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt
<subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
> On Sep 21, 2010, at 08:52, Stewart Dean wrote:
>
>> I built apr and apr-util on this machine, then ran configure like this:
>>
>> ./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apr/bin --with-apr-util=/usr/local/apr/bin
>>
>> The configure runs fine up until:
>>
>> checking for availability of Berkeley DB... no
>> configure: error: Berkeley DB 4.0.14 or newer wasn't found.
>>
>> So I configure, made and made install the Berkeley DB at the latest level of
>> a fresh download from Oracle and called configure again:
>>
>> ./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apr/bin --with-apr-util=/usr/local/apr/bin
>> --with-berkele
>> y-db=db.h:/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.5.1/include:/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.5.1/lib:XXXX
>>
>>
>> where XXXX has been lib, libdb, libdb-5.1
>>
>> in all cases I still get:
>>
>> checking for availability of Berkeley DB... no
>> configure: error: Berkeley DB 4.0.14 or newer wasn't found.
>>
>> The binaries are in /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.5.1/bin....in the off chance that
>> they weren't being seen, I copied them all into /usr/local/bin, but I stll
>> get those two lines.
>
> In MacPorts, we successfully use the following configure argument:
>
> --with-berkeley-db=:${prefix}/include/db46:${prefix}/lib/db46:db-4.6
>
> So, adapted to your BDB version and prefix, try:
>
> --with-berkeley-db=:/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.5.1/include:/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.5.1/lib:db-5.1
>
> Note that apr-util will also need to have been compiled against the same
> version of BDB.
>
> That said, do you even need BDB support? Most people don't anymore and you
> could just use --without-berkeley-db to disable it.
Amen. Unless you need to upgrade older Berkeley DB based repositories,
then discard it as unsupportable.
