Db-4.8.26.NC (make: *** [libdb-4.8.la] Error 1)

Question

Hello all
I am new to building programs from source and would like to ask for some advice or pointers.
I am trying to install BDB (db-4.8.26.NC) to use with openldap.
Steps taken:
- I have installed autoconf & libtools + there dependencies as README says
- cd'd to ~/db-4.8.26.NC/build_unix and run ../dist/configure --prefix=/usr/local (configures fine)
- run make and it hits this error "make: *** [libdb-4.8.la] Error 1"
I think my environment is ok, but because i have so little experiance compiling i am not 100% sure
Tips anyone?
My System:
bash-3.00# uname -a
SunOS suntest1 5.10 Generic_137137-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R Solaris
bash-3.00# psrinfo -pv
The physical processor has 1 virtual processor (0)
UltraSPARC-III+ (portid 0 impl 0x15 ver 0xb0 clock 1200 MHz)
bash-3.00# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/3.4.6/specs
Configured with: ../configure with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld enable-shared enable-languages=c,c++,f77
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.6
bash-3.00# make -v
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This program built for sparc-sun-solaris2.10
bash-3.00# cat .profile
PATH=/usr/local:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/sfw/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/sparcv9
Edited by: user9135541 on 11-Feb-2010 05:25

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply, really appreciate the help.
In answer to your questions,
1. there are a few error in the config.log file, i assume that it is fairly normal to see some errors in here.
conftest.c:49: error: syntax error before ')' token
conftest.c:49: error: `u_int8_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
conftest.c:49: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
conftest.c:49: error: for each function it appears in.
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest
conftest.c:49: error: `FAIL' undeclared (first use in this function)
conftest.c:49: error: syntax error before "TO"
/usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp//ccqHSpL1.s";, line 11: error: cannot use v8plus instructions in a non-v8plus target binary"
2&3. the libdb-4.8.so seems to of been built. and there are alot of other files in the build_unix dir and subdirectories, to numerous to add into this post
suntest1-bash$ ls -lh ~/db-4.8.26.NC/build_unix/.libs/ | grep libdb-4.8.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6M Feb 11 12:20 libdb-4.8.so
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