Re: Building zsh/db/gdbm on MacOS Sequoia

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 8:44 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 11:01 AM Bart Schaefer
> <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > (Sorry about the rapid followups)
>
> One more ...
>
> The only obvious (?) way I've found to track this down would be something like
>
> port contents gdbm | \
>  sed -n '/\/lib\//{s,lib/.*,lib,;s/^[ ]*/-L/;p;q;}'
>
> This works for any port-installed package, e.g., replace gdbm with
> pcre2 or whatever.
>
> Is there a better way?  The full configure.ac entry would need to test
> for the availability of the "port" command, etc.

If you have dependencies outside $prefix then I believe you are
expected to supply this path manually, eg via
% ./configure --help
Some influential environment variables:
  LDFLAGS     linker flags, e.g. -L<lib dir> if you have libraries in
a nonstandard directory <lib dir>
  CPPFLAGS    (Objective) C/C++ preprocessor flags, e.g. -I<include
dir> if you have headers in a nonstandard directory <include dir>


-- 
Mikael Magnusson