On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 03:04:14PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:48:54PM +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > | Dear all - this is my first go at installing Spamassassin and I get > | stuck in the 'make' procedure. It results in: > > | /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lndbm > > | I have tried to look around for this error and what it might be > | missing, > > The error means that there is no "libndbm.so" on your system. > > | but had little success. My system is Debian Potato (I know there is > | a package for Woody/Sid, but upgrading is not an issue here). > > I think you mean that upgrading is not an option. > > | Any pointer or hint is much appreciated! > > On my box (woody/sid mix and win2k), the only place a file with "ndbm" > in the name is found is a header in /usr/include/db1 and a header and > test program in cygwin. > > The header file is from the 'libc6-dev' package. Perhaps that linker > option is not correct for a debian system? Duncan would know about > that, or check the diff (on packages.debian.org). >
On my system, -lndbm is not required, it seems. I think it has to do with MakeMaker choosing what is needed (incorrectly?). However, libndbm.so is listed as belonging to libc6-dev on potato, on packages.d.o. -- Duncan Findlay _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
