Re: Uncompilable sources

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

csj wrote:
  >The short of it: A number of debian sources won't compile because of 
  >the following problem:
  >
  >usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb
 ...
  >debian:/# dpkg -L libdb2-dev | grep "libdb2.so"
  >/usr/lib/libdb2.so
  >
  >What am I missing? 

You need a symbolic link:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Oct  1 03:09 /usr/lib/libdb.so -> 
libdb2.so.2.7.7

olly@linda$ dlocate /usr/lib/libdb.so
libdb2-dev: /usr/lib/libdb.so

Since you have libdb2-dev, it is either a faulty version or the symlink
has been removed; restore it.

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