Re: Error: support for FCNTL mutexes was removed in DBD 4.8

On 1/29/26 10:05 PM, Stephan Hunker ([email protected] via 
lfs-support Mailing List) wrote:
> Hey folks. I receive the following error when trying to build Berkeley 
> DB. I have actually fully built LFS, and have booted it and am working 
> on BLFS, but because the Berkeley DB package was formerly in the LFS 
> book, I posted here, rather than BLFS. I am attempting to build APT (I 
> know, blasphemy, but it's been fun anyway). While building apt, I ran 
> into an error which stated I needed to install Berkeley DB. Finally, I 
> managed to find this (deprecated) package, unpack it and when attempting 
> to configure it, get the following error:
> 
> For configure, I used the steps from BLFS 12.0, Chapter 22:
> 
> ../dist/configure --prefix=/usr \ --enable-compat185 \ --enable-dbm \ -- 
> disable-static \ --enable-cxx && make
> 
> Error: support for FCNTL mutexes was removed in DBD 4.8
> 
> I have googled around, and found a few threads where this issue came up 
> (here <https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa-packages/2024/10/ 
> msg00088.html> (https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa-packages/2024/10/ 
> msg00088.html <https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa-packages/2024/10/ 
> msg00088.html>), for example), but the response states that a patch 
> should have fixed it and the issue was closed. I have not been able to 
> find a patch to fix this problem.
> 
> when I review config.log, there are other errors present, too many to 
> list, but many are of this nature:
> 
> error: implicit declaration of function 'msem_init' [-Wimplicit- 
> function-declaration]
> 
> And, further down in config.log:
> 
> compilation terminated.
> configure:21585: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h */
> 
> and, further still:
> configure:5289: $? = 0
> configure: 5278: cc-qversion >&5
> cc: error: unrecognized command-line option '-qversion'; did you mean 
> '--version'?
> 
> I've run out of ideas on what to search to try and fix this. There must 
> be some config flag or something that can fix this, I think.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

I have built db 5.3 on aarch64 when I was building/using LFS a few years 
ago. I have since abandoned x86_64 platform and I am using the ARM 
platform.   I also have abandoned LFS and use Archlinuxarm.
I was using RPM package manager and then when to Archlinux pacman.
ABC (Arch Build System) allows you to build in a clean chroot so the 
packages that you build does not pickup unintended dependencies.
At 71 years old, keeping my LFS systems became too much work.

Maybe I can send you a tar archive of my last build under pacman (ABS)?

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