Re: exim build failure.

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 08:50:25PM +0100, Mike Pumford wrote:
> Getting exim build failures ever since the last version update due to:
> 
> /bin/sh ../scripts/Configure-os.h
> gcc -DMACRO_PREDEF macro_predef.c
> gcc -c -O2 -I/usr/include -I/usr/pkg/include -fPIC -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> -DMACRO_PREDEF -I/usr/ -I/usr/pkg/include -o macro_predef.o macro_predef.c
> In file included from exim.h:535:0,
>                  from macro_predef.c:12:
> hintsdb.h:465:4: error: #error Berkeley DB version 1 is no longer supported
>  #  error Berkeley DB version 1 is no longer supported
>     ^~~~~
> hintsdb.h:755:15: error: unknown type name 'EXIM_DB'
>  static inline EXIM_DB *
>                ^~~~~~~
> 
> So it looks like exim no longer supports the built in libdb. I can see that
> there is pkgsrc logic for pulling in newer versions but I'm not sure how to
> make the exim package do that.

options.mk includes mk/bdb.buildlink3.mk. That file contains, at the top,
comments about variables to set - it sounds like adding

BDB_ACCEPTED=db2 db3 db4 db5 db6 db18

before the inclusion of bdb.buildlin3.mk in options.mk should solve
your problem.
 Thomas