Re: Building zsh/db/gdbm on MacOS Sequoia

[Oliver Kiddle <opk@xxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 7:56 PM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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 /

Not long ago, I came across a library that used find like that below
/usr which had the effect of hanging the build on my system for a very
very long time.

I don't think using the package manager as in the suggested patch is a
great idea either. There are way too many different ones. There can be
more than one on particular systems: you might have gdbm from
more than one of mac ports, conda, brew, pkgsrc, ravenports, etc

Using pkg-config files or specific commands like pcre2-config is
well established and it is clearer how to control which is used where
there are multiple installations of the same library. The same goes for
assigning specific values to variables like LDFLAGS to direct the build
to needed libraries. We should be trying to make the configure script
simpler.

Oliver