Hi,

How can I build and then install Berkeley DB in my
home directory.

What I intend to do is to install it in:

~/.berkeley_db


I tried the following command:

$ ../dist/configure --prefix $HOME/.berkeley_db

followed by:

$ make

But it failed, thus the command: make install
also failed.

Did I do it the right way?
Hope to hear from you again.
Thanks.

Regards,
Gundala Viswanath

This is likely caused by something else than your special installation
path. Could you show us the error messages, especially for the "make"
failure?

I guess Gundala has merely missed the "equals" sign between "--prefix"
and the path. If this is not the case, we need to see the exact error
messages "make" spits out to determine the root cause of the problem.


/Sergey

Hi Florian,

Thanks for your reply



The last few lines after make command is this:


cc -I /home/gundala/.libstree/include -I /home/gundala/.gsl/include -I
/home/gundala/.swish/include -o .libs/db_archive
/home/gundala//.libstree/lib /home/gundala/.gsl/lib
/home/gundala//.swish/lib .libs/db_archive.o .libs/util_sig.o
-L/home/gundala/Tool/db-4.4.20/build_unix ./.libs/libdb-4.4.so
-lpthread -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/gundala//.berkeley_db/lib
/home/gundala.libstree/lib: file not recognized: Is a directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [db_archive] Error 1


And also my .bash_profile look like this:

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

export
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$HOME/.lynx/bin:$HOME/.octave/bin:$HOME/.pari/bin:$HOME/.swish/bin

# User specific environment and startup programs
export CFLAGS="-I $HOME/.libstree/include -I $HOME/.gsl/include -I
$HOME/.swish/include";
export LDFLAGS="-L $HOME/.libstree/lib -L $HOME/.gsl/lib -L
$HOME/.swish/lib";
export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/gundala/.swish/lib:/home/gundala/.gsl/lib:/home/gundala/.libstree/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"


unset USERNAME
export
PERL5LIB=/home/gundala/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi:/home/gundala/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5

__END__

I've also include the = sign after prefix, it still return the same
error message.

Hope to hear from you again.



Regards,
Gundala

You must not use spaces between the -I and -L options and their
arguments. Your CFLAGS and LDFLAGS settings are incorrect.

Florian Weimer wrote:

Ok. Now CFLAGS and LDFLAGS settings in my .bash_profile look like
this:

export CFLAGS="-I
$HOME/.libstree/include:$HOME/.gsl/include:$HOME/.swish/include";
export LDFLAGS="-L
$HOME/.libstree/lib:$HOME/.gsl/lib:$HOME/.swish/lib";



But I still encounter this error:

cc -c -I. -I../dist/.. -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -I
/home/gundala/.libstree/include:/home/gundala/.gsl/include:/home/gundala/.swish/include
.../dist/../common/util_sig.c -o util_sig.o >/dev/null 2>&1
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link cc -I
/home/gundala.libstree/include:/home/gundala/.gsl/include:/home/gundala/.swish/include
-o db_archive -L
/home/gundala/.libstree/lib:/home/gundala/.gsl/lib:/home/gundala/.swish/lib
\
db_archive.lo util_sig.lo libdb-4.4.la -lpthread
cc -I
/home/gundala/.libstree/include:/home/gundala/.gsl/include:/home/gundala/.swish/include
-o .libs/db_archive
/home/gundala/.libstree/lib:/home/gundala/.gsl/lib:/home/gundala/.swish/lib
..libs/db_archive.o .libs/util_sig.o
-L/home/gundala/Tool/db-4.4.20/build_unix ./.libs/libdb-4.4.so
-lpthread -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/gundala/.berkeley_db/lib
cc:
/home/gundala/.libstree/lib:/home/gundala/.gsl/lib:/home/gundala/.swish/lib:
No such file or directory
make: *** [db_archive] Error 1

Is my .bash_profile setting still incorrect?

--
Regards,
Gundala Viswanath

No, you must use:

-I$HOME/.libstree/include -I$HOME/.gsl/include

and so on.

Thanks so much for your patience Florian!
It works great now. So sorry for the trouble.

Regards,
Gundala Viswanath