Bug 31037 – OpenLDAP does not compile due to LDBM backend problem

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Gualter Barbas Baptista 2003-10-13 07:09:30 UTC]

When I try to emerge OpenLDAP, configure fails because it does not find a suitable LDBM 
backend. Maybe it's some dependency problem with the ebuild? 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge openldap 
2. 
3. 
Actual Results:  
... 
checking for db3/db.h... yes 
checking for Berkeley DB link (default)... no 
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb-3)... no 
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb4)... no 
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb3)... no 
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb2)... no 
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb1)... no 
configure: warning: could not find suitable LDBM backend 
configure: error: select appropriate LDBM options or disable 
 
!!! ERROR: net-nds/openldap-2.0.27-r4 failed. 
!!! Function econf, Line 335, Exitcode 1 
!!! econf failed 

Expected Results:  
 

Portage 2.0.49-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r5) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -pipe " 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -pipe " 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gpm jpeg gnome libg++ mad mikmod 
mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml alsa gdbm 
berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga tcltk java guile postgres X sdl tcpd pam libwww ssl 
perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl scanner acpi dvd fbcon gd mozilla ppds 
samba usb xinerama"

[Comment 1 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2003-10-13 11:51:50 UTC]

Ok, it should check for db-3 and not db3. Or even better should it be using
db-4. The first one is an easy change in the configure script, the latter
a little bit more difficult as it should look in db4/db.h or just for db.h.
Maybe a little bit more of the output would be useful, then I could have
seen whether other db.h's where tried.

Gualter, could you attach /var/tmp/portage/openldap-???/work/openldap-???/config.log
where the ??? need to be replaced with the actual version

[Comment 2 Gualter Barbas Baptista 2003-10-14 03:14:44 UTC]

Created attachment 19215 [details]
config.log for openldap-2.0.27-r4

[Comment 3 Robin Johnson 2003-10-18 03:34:22 UTC]

problem is due to the case where USE="-gdbm -berkdb". Current code then expects
berkdb to be present.

I think it's time for OpenLDAP to hard depend on >=sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r1
and properly build that support in always (gdbm support works but it's a
major performance hit).

[Comment 4 Zhen Lin 2003-10-18 20:21:20 UTC]

checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb-3)... no 
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb4)... no 
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb3)... no 
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb2)... no 
checking for Berkeley DB link (-ldb1)... no 

Obviously, these would all fail, because Gentoo's is different:

DB 4 : -ldb-4
DB 3 : -ldb-3.2
DB 1 : -ldb-1

[Comment 5 Robin Johnson 2003-10-18 21:23:06 UTC]

Zhen: that output really doesn't matter. The problem is that in the case
when USE="-berkdb -gdbm" 

This line gets passed to configure:
myconf="${myconf} --enable-ldbm --enable-bdb --with-ldbm-api=berkeley"

However sys-libs/db is NOT pulled in when USE="-berkdb -gdbm" !

[Comment 6 Robin Johnson 2003-10-28 18:21:45 UTC]

fixed in CVS now.
now if USE="-berkdb -gdbm", we make it pull in berkdb anyway, after displaying
a warning.