pkg/37928: ERROR: db4 is not installed; can't buildlink files

[reed%reedmedia.net@localhost]

>Number:         37928
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       ERROR: db4 is not installed; can't buildlink files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 31 05:15:00 +0000 2008
>Originator:     reed%reedmedia.net@localhost
>Release:        NetBSD 4.0_RC4
>Organization:
  Jeremy C. Reed
>Environment:
        
        
System: NetBSD tx.reedmedia.net 4.0_RC4 NetBSD 4.0_RC4 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Nov 8 
00:11:53 PST 2007 
builds@wb28:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-RC4/amd64/200711080452Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-RC4/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
 amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
Building sysutils/gnome-vfs fails with:

===> Creating toolchain wrappers for gnome-vfs-2.20.1
ERROR: db4 is not installed; can't buildlink files.
*** Error code 1

It says:

        * BDB185_DEFAULT = db4
        * BDB_DEFAULT = db4
        * FAM_DEFAULT = fam
        * KRB5_DEFAULT = heimdal
...
        * BDB_LIBS = -ldb4
        * BDB_TYPE = db4
...
        * KRB5_TYPE = heimda

So heimdal depends on db4.

I have installed:
heimdal-0.6.3nb3 which depends on db4>=4.2.52nb7

The databases/db4/buildlink3.mk has:
BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.db4+=     db4>=4.6.21

The security/heimdal/buildlink3.mk has:
BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.heimdal+= heimdal>=0.4e

(I am using USE_ABI_DEPENDS=NO.)

Because my heimdal is good enough, the db4 is not buildlinked.

>How-To-Repeat:
        
>Fix:
I have had this problem with different packages at least six times over the
past six months. Others have reported similar problems.

I have posted suggestions on how to solve it for other packages. But
I won't suggest it here ... hoping that someone will have a better
correct fix for this.

>Unformatted: