[GRASSLIST:3204] Re: pre3 configure problem

[Eric G. Miller]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 08:40:11PM -0800, John Dougherty wrote:
> I decided to torture myself again and downloaded the pre3 source.  Since 
> compiling grass never seems to be quite as straight forward as it ought to be 
> (I have my fingers crossed the LSB will take care of this), it was no a real 
> surprise that during configuration for compiling grass5.0.0pre3 I  
> encountered an error: 

Note: LSB doesn't figure except for packaged binaries...  GRASS is used
on alot of other *nix systems.

> configure: error: *** Unable to locate DBM includes.
> 
> There are several gdbm librabries on my linux system (Mandrake 8.1 right 
> now).  I need to know what to point configure at to get past that error.  Ca 
> someone give me a clue please?

You need the gdbm development libraries, and probably specify the header
location (/usr/include/gdbm ?) to ./configure.

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>