Hello,

./configure script fails to configure libsf. Please check the following last few lines of configure script error.

checking for db1/db.h... no
checking for db.h... yes
checking for dbopen in -ldb1... no
configure: error: No libdb? No libsf.

But find command shows the following;

/usr/lib/libdb-4.2.so
/usr/lib/libdb-4.a
/usr/lib/libdb-4.2.la
/usr/lib/libdb-4.4.la
/usr/lib/libdb-4.so
/usr/lib/libdb.a
/usr/lib/libdb.so
/usr/lib/libdb-4.4.so
/usr/lib/libdb-4.4.a
/lib/libdb-4.2.so
/lib/libdb-3.3.so
/lib/libdb-3.1.so
/lib/libdb-4.4.so

It seems the file libdb does exist. man dbopen displays man page
for dbopen. I also tried to ln -s /usr/lib/libdb.a and libdb.so /lib dir but all were in vain.

Please help. Thank you.

Welcome to LQ.

'libdb1' is required. ( Not libdb-3.x or -4.x )

Install libdb1-devel or whatever the name is for your Linux OS.
http://linuxsilo.net/docs/smart-questions_en.html

Hello,

Thank you very much for the help but I couldn't find any db1 package.
I use slackware 13. I thought the required file was db instead of db1 because the readme file of libsf states the following;
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1. You'll need to build and install:
a. libnet 1.1.0 (http://www.packetfactory.net/libnet)
b. libpcap 0.6.x+ (http://www.tcpdump.org)
c. libdb old API - should be included with most modern OS releases -
(http://www.sleepycat.com/)
------------------------------------------------
So you see the subsection "c". I have downloaded and installed a tarball libdb1_1.85.4-osso9+0m5.tar.gz from
http://maemo.org/packages/source/vie...5.4-osso9+0m5/ build it. It produced the following files;
libdb.so.1.85.4, libdb.a and a directory "include" and inside it the following header files; db.h, compat.h, mpool.h, mdbm.h

make install also failed. It tried to create two directories under root such as /root/usr/lib and /root/include.

Did I download the right package? I can't find the libdb1 package.

The year is 2002 : Please have a look at the "libsf" time stamp.
README : 18 Feb 2002. The files in src/ : Same date.


Libsf is buggy, and will not compile on any Linux. AFAIK.
( The oldest I gave a try with libsf, was Debian Etch /// gcc-2.95.)

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Thanks again. got it and stopped running after libsf. I dont need it. Sanity prevails.
But one hitch still remains. libdb1? vanished? But really i don't need all these. I'm noob in c and *nix and trying to learn programming *nix so getting confused by seeing so many libs which offer so many things.
Well, thanks again and very warm regards...

'db1-1.85-i386-1.txz' for Slackware 13, 32bits, section "pasture"
ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/slackware....85-i386-1.txz


No package for x86_64.
( And an attempt to build a 64bits package fails
ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/slackware...re/source/db1/ )

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I installed libdb1 and libsf (downloaded again from packetfactory openwall repository) found no error in its configure script but didn't compile.
you're correct; it won't compile. Thanks again. I came to know about another slack package repo.
a bagful of thanks...