Perhaps someone can answer this. kde-devel seems to ignore this question when asked earlier I am using cooker versions of libqt3 and libqt3-devel and autoconf 2.5. automake 1.5 that I compiled myself. gcc-2.96 and g++-2.96 from cooker. I see no body complaining about this so it must be my current setup.
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb on kdebase current cvs version. g++-2.96 -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wbad-function-cast -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -D_GNU_SOURCE -o kio_ldap.la.closure .libs/kio_ldap_la_closure.o .libs/kio_ldap.o .libs/kldap.o .libs/kldapurl.o -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib/qt3/lib -L/opt/kde3/lib /opt/kde3/lib/libkio.so -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96 -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/../../.. -L/usr/lib /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeui.so /opt/kde3/lib/libkdefx.so -lXrender /opt/kde3/lib/libkdesu.so /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so /opt/kde3/lib/libDCOP.so -lqt-mt -lpng -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lpthread -lXext /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so -lz /usr/lib/libfam.so -lstdc++ -lm -lc -lgcc /usr/lib/libldap.so /usr/lib/libsasl.so -lnsl /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/../../../libsasl.so -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr//lib -ldb -ldl -lcrypt -lpam -lssl -lcrypto /usr/lib/liblber.so -lresolv -lutil -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/opt/kde3/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/../../.. -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/opt/kde3/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/../../.. -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib/qt3/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [kio_ldap.la.closure] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/salane/kdecvs/kdebase/kioslave/ldap' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/salane/kdecvs/kdebase/kioslave' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/salane/kdecvs/kdebase' make: *** [all] Error 2