Re: Berkeley or PBL?

On 05 Feb 2006, Paul wrote:
> Hi Brian and all,
> 
> The post by Anthony gave me an idea:
> 
> >OK, problem solved; it was some sort of permission problem. Running
> >"configure" as root made things work.
> 
> I downloaded 1.4, unpacked that and ran configure. No good. Ran it as
> root. No good. Both times the message that no suitable BerkeleyDB
> package was found.
> Then I ran configure on 1.4 as root, with the --with-db=... to the
> directory where BerkeyDB is installed. Then configure ran well. ????
> So I tried that same one with 1.4a, as root, with the --with-db
> parameter. And this time it also worked, configure built proper
> Makefiles.
> 
> Food for thought?
> 
> Paul
> -- 

Actually, I still don't know why I had to run configure as root. I'm
sure I didn't do that in the past, with the same set-up. I thought I
must have done something silly, but I can't think what it was.

Anthony


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