linking rpm to already-installed libdb

[prj po cwru edu (Paul Jarc)]

I'm installing rpm from source and I want to link to the popt and db
libraries that I already have installed.  I seem to have rpm linked
against the right popt, even though "make" still builds some of rpm's
own popt sources as well.  No luck with db.

I found the --without-db option for configure, but it's not clear
whether this is supposed to do what I want.  I tried it, and noticed
that configure couldn't find db3/db.h, so I created a symlink "db3" ->
"." in the db include directory.  (Assuming this is what configure is
looking for, it would be better to look for plain db.h, at least if
db3/db.h cannot be found, since db itself does not make db.h available
as db3/db.h.)

That symlink let configure find db3/db.h, but I still get this error
from make:
Making all in rpmdb
make[2]: Entering directory `/fs/home/mount/home/prj/src/sptools/rpm-4.0.3-1/rpmdb'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../db3/db.h', needed by `dbconfig.lo'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/fs/home/mount/home/prj/src/sptools/rpm-4.0.3-1/rpmdb'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/fs/home/mount/home/prj/src/sptools/rpm-4.0.3-1'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

Any ideas?  Should I be using --without-db at all?


paul