Configure for imapd 2.1.9 doesn't necessarily pick up the version of BerkeleyDB specified with --with-dbdir= switch

[Joe Rhett]

This is well known, although not well documented.  I believe it is fixed in
cvs as well.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:06:57AM -0400, Gordon Marler wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 10:42, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> > On 15 Oct 2002, Gordon Marler wrote:
> > 
> > > Since I'm not set up for GSSAPI yet, I used --disable-gssapi, and it
> > > works fine.  Many thanks!
> > >
> > > It isn't intuitive that the two would be related, is it?
> > 
> > It is, since your configure.log was complaining about GSSAPI libraries
> > that were missing.  It's a bit more disturbing that it thought you had
> > them, but I'll look into that I guess.
> > 
> > -Rob
> > 
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> > Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456
> > Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
> > 
> > 
> > 
> What's even more disturbing (note the subject change above for the
> benefit of the list) is the fact that if you specify 
> --with-dbdir=<my preferred DB version> 
> to configure, it won't necessarily pick that up.  Allow me to elaborate:
> 
> I have every version of Sleepycat Berkeley DB installed since v2.7.7. 
> However, I use one of them more than the others, so my PATH is set to go
> through that version's /bin directory (version 4.x.x)
> 
> I notice that if I specify the --with-dbdir=<DB version 3.x.x> switch to
> configure, configure runs programs in *my PATH* (DB version 4.x.x) to
> determine the version of DB available rather than exclusively using the
> directory I specified in the --with-dbdir= switch.  Of course, this
> causes the compile to fail miserably later, since configure couldn't
> really determine which version to target, so it mixes them up a bit.
> 
> Just thought the maintainer would like to know this was happening.  Most
> products that allow you to specify a certain version of a library during
> a configure purposely ignore all other installations of that library,
> and manually set the PATH during each configure test to make sure that
> only the specified version of a tool is used.  Oh well...
> 
> -- 
> T. Gordon Marler
> gmarler at gmarler.com

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