RE: [CentOS] Linking against a specific Berkeley DB install - Discuss

1 Dec 2005

      From: Bowie Bailey
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I am trying to compile OpenLDAP 2.3.11 from source on 
CentOS4.  I have the rpm for db4-4.2.52-7.1 installed and also a
source build of BerkeleyDB in /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.4.
How do I get OpenLDAP to link with the bdb 4.4?
I have put the library locataion everywhere I can think of:
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.4/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.4/lib
LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.4/lib

Still, the configure seems to link with the 4.2 rpm build:
checking db.h usability... yes
checking db.h presence... yes
checking for db.h... yes
checking for Berkeley DB link (default)... no
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb43)... no
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb-43)... no
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb-4.3)... no
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb-4-3)... no
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb42)... no
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb-42)... no
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb-4.2)... yes
checking for Berkeley DB version match... yes
checking for Berkeley DB thread support... yes
checking Berkeley DB version for BDB/HDB backends... yes

Update...
On the assumption that maybe OpenLDAP just doesn't like bdb 4.4, I
built and installed bdb 4.3 and then tried the OpenLDAP build again.
This time I get a different message:
checking db.h usability... yes
    checking db.h presence... yes
    checking for db.h... yes
    checking for Berkeley DB link (default)... no
    checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb43)... no
    checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb-43)... no
    checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb-4.3)... yes
    checking for Berkeley DB version match... Berkeley DB version mismatch
            header: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (February 22,
2005)
            library: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September  6,
2005)
    no
    configure: error: Berkeley DB version mismatch
It seems like it is getting the header from the rpm install.  I don't
want to remove the rpm because of dependencies (Perl, Python, PAM,
etc).  Is there any way I can leave the old rpm in place and just compile
OpenLDAP against the newer build?
Thanks,
Bowie