Aapo Lehtinen wrote: > Hi > > Has anyone successfully compiled ruby 1.9 (stable snapshot or 1.9.1-p0) > on OpenBSD? Compiling fails with: > > $ make > compiling Win32API > compiling bigdecimal > compiling curses > compiling dbm > gcc -shared -fPIC -o ../../.ext/x86_64-openbsd4.5/dbm.so dbm.o -L. > -L../.. -L. -Wl,-E -ldb -lm -lc > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > *** Error code 1
<..> > Current, but I don't think that is the issue. > So, can I get advice to work this out? > > Aapo Lehtinen Hello, You didn't specify -L/usr/local/lib in your compilation flags (which is where libdb.so.* resides, and which is why you can't find it). You should add /usr/local/include as extra include directory, and /usr/local/lib as extra library directory when running the ./configure script. Cheers, -- Stephane LAPIE, EPITA SRS, Promo 2005 "Even when they have digital readouts, I can't understand them." --MegaTokyo [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

