Leaving ldconfig issues at installation time aside -- what do you think is "perfectly usable"? What locking code do Red Hat configure for gdbm-devel?
They'll configure whatever needs to work with the rest of the distribution.
And looking at the gdbm-1.8.3/NEWS file doesn't let gdbm-1.8.0 look exactly trustworthy. So the OP (original poster) who is using a more recent gdbm-1.8.x version (as you can tell from the shared object version being 3 rather than 2 as it is in 1.8.0) has likely good reason to go for the newer version.
This approach never works well with Red Hat. Unless you really know what you're doing, installing stuff by hand will result in eventual system instability, and random problems. I do not recommend that anyone running Red Hat attempt to install any system-level software by hand. At the minimum any stuff should be installed via RPM, and only if the installed package is built properly.
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