Re: Building zsh/db/gdbm on MacOS Sequoia

Bart Schaefer <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:54:35 -0700

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On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 10:46 AM Bart Schaefer
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> configure:7174: gcc -o conftest  -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -ggdb
> -I/opt/local/include  -g conftest.c -lgdbm   >&5
> ld: library 'gdbm' not found
> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
> configure:7174: $? = 1
>
> I should have looked for that before, but it remains unclear why it
> fails to find the library.

The PCRE tests are using "-L/opt/local/lib" but the GDBM tests are
not.  However, I can't figure out where that's coming from.