checking for db_create in RH9

[Simon Matter]

> Hi. I have RedHat 9 and I'm trying to install cyrus-imapd.

Looks like you messed up your box somehow. The
cyrus-imapd-2.1.16-6.src.rpm compiles fine on stock RedHat 9.

What does 'rpm -qa | grep ^db' show you? It should be like this:

db4-devel-4.0.14-20
db4-4.0.14-20
db4-utils-4.0.14-20

Simon

> I've read the docs and I've followed the steps. But when
> I try to compile it complains:
>
> ...
> checking for db_create in -ldb30... no
> checking for db_create in -ldb3... no
> checking for db_create in -ldb... no
> checking for db_open in -ldb... no
> configure: error: this version requires Berkeley DB 3.x or later.
>
> I downloaded db4 source rpm, patched the spec and rebuilt it.
> Now I have db4,db4-utils and db4-devel 4.0.14-20_nonptl.
> But when I try to compile cyrus-imapd-2.1.16-6.src.rpm it
> looks it can't find db. I made sure the lib is somewhere:
> /usr/lib/libdb-4.0.a , /lib/libdb-4.0.so.
>
> I've searched this in the mailing list archives and I've
> found similar problems but I still can't manage to solve it.
>
> Is there something I am missing ?
> thank you very much
>
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