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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Joe Rhett Chief Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISite Services, Inc.
