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Date:      Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:32:48 -0800
From:      Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Richard Morte <ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Installing GDBM_File (was: Location of GDBM_File in FreeBSD 3.2_Release)
Message-ID:  <v04210197b44e513bbf4d@[209.239.239.22]>
In-Reply-To: <66974.942136600@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
References:  <66974.942136600@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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At 10:36 AM +0200 11/9/99, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 14:07:18 GMT, Richard Morte wrote:
>
>> > > $ perl Makefile.PL
>> > > Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lgdbm
>> > > Note (probably harmless): No library found for -ldbm
>
>Okay, so if you've got gdbm installed, then the only possible problem is
>that whatever is trying to find it isn't looking in the right place.
>Presumably, something in your Makefile.PL contains -lgdbm, which means
>"link against a library called libgdbm.
>
>You need to add to that statement -L/usr/local/lib, which means "also
>look for libraries in the path /usr/local/lib", since that's probably
>where libgdbm is.

That didn't work when I was building maildrop. I tried that __EXACT__ 
remedy right off the bat. The author was helping me through the whole 
process.

>Don't take the advice you've been given about creating symlinks in /usr
>-- it's messy and not good practice. :-)

It was the only way that it worked for me.

Jon


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