Re: Building zsh/db/gdbm on MacOS Sequoia

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 5:34 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 2:30 PM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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:
> > >
> > > port contents gdbm | \
> > >  sed -n '/\/lib\//{s,lib/.*,lib,;s/^[ ]*/-L/;p;q;}'
> >
> > If you have dependencies outside $prefix then I believe you are
> > expected to supply this path manually, eg via
> >   LDFLAGS     linker flags, e.g. -L<lib dir> if you have libraries in
> > a nonstandard directory <lib dir>
>
> Well, yes, but given that --enable-pcre tracks down the nonstandard
> location and that there is an --enable-gdbm flag, I thought it might
> be reasonable for configure to do something similar here.

Yeah, the asymmetry is that pcre has pcre-config, and gdbm doesn't
have that nor a pkgconfig file, so there's not really anything we
could do short of find -name libgdbm.so /

-- 
Mikael Magnusson