Re: linking rpm to already-installed libdb

[prj po cwru edu (Paul Jarc)]

Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:20:49PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> Any ideas?  Should I be using --without-db at all?
>
> Dunno. I added the switch just in case, no idea whether it woiks.

Did I guess correctly that it's at least *supposed* to do what I'm
trying to do?  The description in "./configure --help" is a bit
opaque.

> FWIW, part of the reason Berkeley DB was internalized was to make it
> simpler to build rpm standalone, as there's a great deal of configuration
> complexity in setting up Berkely DB.

I used --enable-compat185 --enable-cxx, which should be sufficient
from what I gather.

> Any reason you can't use the internal version?

I could, but I'd rather not.  Wasted space, etc.  Red Hat's rpm
depends on the separate db{1,3} packages, so apparently they've done
this somehow.


paul