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Re: Building zsh/db/gdbm on MacOS Sequoia

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Building zsh/db/gdbm on MacOS Sequoia
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:30:10 +0100 (BST)
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> On 24/06/2026 17:15 BST Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I recently updated XCode and installed gdbm from MacPorts in order to
> run the latest tests.  After enabling zsh/db/gdbm in config.modules
> with link=static I ran
>
> ./configure --enable-gdbm --disable-dynamic --enable-zsh-debug --enable-pcre
>
> Unfortunately even after running this, "make" does not add "-lgdbm" to
> the loader flags.  PCRE is also from ports, and it gets handled
> correctly.  I'm using
>
> make EXTRA_LDFLAGS=-lgdbm
>
> to avoid the link errors, but it seems like I shouldn't need to?  What
> did I miss?

The test is this:

if test x$gdbm != xno; then
  AC_CHECK_HEADERS(gdbm.h)
  AC_CHECK_LIB(gdbm, gdbm_open)
fi

I guess the search for gdbm_open failed somehow?  Is another library
also needed that isn't linked at this point?

pws

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