From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 9 14:32:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE1615437 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:32:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpr@vcnet.com) Received: from [209.239.239.22] by mail.vcnet.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO203-101c) ID# 0-39954U2500L250S0) with ESMTP id AAA8638; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:32:49 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <66974.942136600@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <66974.942136600@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:32:48 -0800 To: Sheldon Hearn , Richard Morte From: Jon Rust Subject: Re: Installing GDBM_File (was: Location of GDBM_File in FreeBSD 3.2_Release) Cc: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message