[ On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 at 08:20:47 (-0800), Jon Buller wrote: ]
> Subject: mail/bogofilter upgrade?
>
> I've been working on upgrading bogofilter to 0.15.11 from 0.14.5.
> The configure script seems to be having problems with really wanting
> to use -ldb instead of -ldb4 which seems to be the proper way on
> my -current/sparc machine.

Yeah, they've really made things really horribly ugly as well as really
extremely and unnecessarily complex.  :-(

>  I am not very autoconf clued, so I've
> been bashing on the configure script directly, but I suspect the
> right thing to do os hack config.in or configure.ac or something
> and feed the changes back to ESR.
> 
> Anyone want to offer advice/assist/take over this little project?

I tried hacking on 0.5.13 yesterday but didn't get far enough along to
test my ideas since I was too lazy to upgrade my autoconf and automake. :-)

The following patch _might_ fix the bug, assuming that configure is then
invoked with the following too:

CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--with-database=db4
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--with-libdb-prefix=${BUILDLINK_PREFIX.db4}/include/db4


--- configure.ac.orig	Fri Dec 26 10:25:03 2003
+++ configure.ac	Wed Dec 31 18:25:01 2003
@@ -298,12 +298,12 @@
 	])],,AC_MSG_ERROR(Cannot link to qdbm library.))
 	LIBS="$saveLIBS"
     ;;
-    xdb)
+    xdb|xdb[0-9])
 	dnl check if we need LIBDB at all (it is harmful on BSD since
 	dnl they rename the library including soname)
 	AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DB_TYPE, "db")
 	AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DB_EXT, ".db")
-	AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS([db])
+	AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS([$WITH_DB_ENGINE])
 	AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([#include <db.h>], [int r, s, t; db_version(&r, &s, &t);])],LIBDB="")
 	saveLIBS="$LIBS"
 	LIBS="$LIBS $LIBDB"


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