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Id: 44070
Status: resolved
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Queue: BerkeleyDB
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Requestors: m.e [...] acm.org
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.38
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  Thu Mar 12 13:07:38 2009 m.e [...] acm.org - Ticket created
Subject: Build fails with BerkeleyDB.xs:68:16: error: db.h: No such file or directory
Tried to install BerkeleyDB using the CPAN module but got a build error: "BerkeleyDB.xs:68:16: error: db.h: No such file or directory" and many more errors (see attachment). [root@edward ~]# perl -v This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi [root@edward ~]# uname -a Linux edward.sunmoonstars 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 11 23:58:12 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Subject: bad-cpan.txt

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  Sun Mar 15 05:44:39 2009 pmqs [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Thu Mar 12 13:07:38 2009, m.e wrote: Show quoted text
> Tried to install BerkeleyDB using the CPAN module but got a build error: > "BerkeleyDB.xs:68:16: error: db.h: No such file or directory" and many > more errors (see attachment). > > [root@edward ~]# perl -v > > This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi > [root@edward ~]# uname -a > Linux edward.sunmoonstars 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 11 > 23:58:12 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
It looks like you don't have the main prerequisite for my module, the Berkeley DB library, installed on your system. Please look at the TROUBLESHOOTING section in the README file that comes with my module. In particular look for " Missing db.h or libdb.a" Paul
  Sun Mar 15 05:44:40 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Oct 08 02:39:56 2009 rkrimen [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Sun Mar 15 05:44:39 2009, PMQS wrote: Show quoted text
> It looks like you don't have the main prerequisite for my module, the > Berkeley DB library, installed on your system. > > Please look at the TROUBLESHOOTING section in the README file that comes > with my module. In particular look for " Missing db.h or libdb.a" > > Paul
Yes this is basically the problem I encountered. Perhaps there is a way to catch this error and give a hint to the user what to do? Even better would be to do some rudimentary system detection and give specific hints, as on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libdb-dev Thanks, Robert
  Fri Oct 09 17:50:41 2009 pmqs [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Thu Oct 08 02:39:56 2009, RKRIMEN wrote: Show quoted text
> On Sun Mar 15 05:44:39 2009, PMQS wrote:
> > It looks like you don't have the main prerequisite for my module, the > > Berkeley DB library, installed on your system. > > > > Please look at the TROUBLESHOOTING section in the README file that comes > > with my module. In particular look for " Missing db.h or libdb.a" > > > > Paul
> > > Yes this is basically the problem I encountered. Perhaps there is a way > to catch this error and give a hint to the user what to do? > > Even better would be to do some rudimentary system detection and give > specific hints, as on Ubuntu: > > sudo apt-get install libdb-dev
I've looked into this a few times. Although what you suggest may work fine for Ubuntu, I need some thing that will work for *all* operating systems that my module runs on, plus the large number of versions of the berkeley db library, plus the multitude of places it gets installed. Paul
  Wed Dec 30 06:05:13 2009 pmqs [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'