Bug 47572

Summary:	It would be nice if apr configure --with-dbm=xdbm would imply --with-xdbm
Product:	APR	Reporter:	Dan Poirier <poirier>
Component:	APR	Assignee:	Apache Portable Runtime bugs mailinglist <bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	bojan, poirier
Priority:	P5	Keywords:	PatchAvailable
Version:	HEAD
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Attachments:	Patch to enable --with-gdbm if --with-dbm=gdbm was requested

Description Dan Poirier 2009-07-24 06:29:30 UTC

When I configure apr to use gdbm:

./configure --with-dbm=gdbm

but forget to include --with-gdbm, then apr gets built in a way that requires apr_gdbm, but doesn't build apr_gdbm.  The result is that code that tries to use apr_dbm, e.g. htdbm, fails.

It would be nice if specifying --with-dbm=gdbm would automatically add --with-gdbm, or at least result in an error if --with-gdbm wasn't specified.

I assume the same occurs with other choices for --with-dbm, but haven't checked yet.

I'll look into this further when I have time, but I'm a novice with autoconf, so if someone who knows this area better wants to look at it, that's fine with me.

Comment 1 Dan Poirier 2009-08-10 09:25:53 UTC

Created attachment 24123 [details]
Patch to enable --with-gdbm if --with-dbm=gdbm was requested

Here's a patch that seems to do what I would like.  An alternative would be to fail the configure if --with-dbm=gdbm was requested and it didn't find gdbm, whether because no --with-gdbm was given or it's just not installed.  I'm open to advice on which fits better with the usual practice for autoconf.