From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 21:31:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camel.ethereal.net (camel.ethereal.net [204.107.140.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C15F3151A0 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mistwolf@camel.ethereal.net) Received: (from mistwolf@localhost) by camel.ethereal.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id VAA04144; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:31:40 -0700 From: Jamie Norwood To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, downsj@downsj.com Subject: Problems with GDBM on FreeBSD 3.2-R Message-ID: <19990714213140.A3636@ethereal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, this has me completely puzzled. GDBM compiles, installs, and with effort works fine, but it's the effort part that has me stumped. In short, the only way this library works, whether I compile by hand or by the entry in /usr/ports/databases/gdbm, is if I use -L/usr/local/lib. LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LD_RUN_PATH, nothing else works but that. Which means, for one thing, that GNU configure scripts never find it. The odd thing is, if I install 2.2.8-R on a machine, and install, either by hand or ports,GDBM, it works perfectly fine. I have tried this on at least 6 installations of 3.x since it went RELEASE, and it is still happening. All other libraries in /usr/local/lib (readline, for one...) seem to work fine. This has me really puzzled as to why, exactly, it is happening. Does anyone know why this happens? How it can be fixed? I am setting up this machine as a haven for MUSHes, many of which have existing databases based on gdbm, and this makes getting them set up on my machines a lot harder than it should be. :/ CCing the maintainer of GDBM in case s/he has insite. Jamie -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s+:+ a--(?) C++++ UB++++ P+ L--(++) E-- W++(--) N++ O? K w(---) O?>+ M?>+ V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP->++ t+(*) 5+++ X++ R++ tv+ b+ DI++++ D++ G e>+ h--- r+++ y+++** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message