configure: error: libdb_cxx headers missing (netbsd) #2998

issue paulogeyer openend this issue on September 15, 2013
  1. paulogeyer commented at 1:43 pm on September 15, 2013: none

    these files are located in /usr/pkg/include/db4

    samsa% ls /usr/pkg/include/db4 db.h db_185.h db_cxx.h

  2. luke-jr commented at 4:24 pm on September 15, 2013: member
    This path should already be searched if /usr/pkg/include is in your include path… Can you post a config.log?
  3. ghedipunk commented at 9:25 pm on September 25, 2013: none

    Same issue here:

    CentOS running on a virtual machine.

    locate db_cxx.h /usr/include/db_cxx.h /usr/include/db4/db_cxx.h /usr/share/doc/db4-devel-4.7.25/ref/upgrade.3.0/db_cxx.html _

    Contents of config.log: http://pastebin.com/N1jW9GuF

  4. Diapolo commented at 8:51 am on October 4, 2013: none
    Still an issue with latest master? AFAIK there were changes with the new autotools system so perhaps you can try again.
  5. gongchengra commented at 11:28 am on October 16, 2013: none
    Same problem on ubuntu 13.04.
  6. gongchengra commented at 11:50 am on October 16, 2013: none
    sudo apt-get install libdb++-dev solves my problem.
  7. laanwj commented at 12:12 pm on October 16, 2013: member
    Obviously you get that error if libdb is not installed… if you read carefully, the original poster has the library installed but it is not detected, so it is not the same problem.
  8. alexander-ivanov commented at 10:03 am on November 29, 2013: none

    Since there is no libdb++ in official CentOs repo, I’ve done the following to fix this problem

    1. Download sources of BerkeleyDb 4.8
    2. Go to /build_unix/
    3. ../dist/configure –prefix=/usr/local –enable-cxx
    4. make
    5. (as root) make install
  9. tjuryakin commented at 2:01 pm on December 5, 2013: none
    Alex, thank you!
  10. donSchoe commented at 2:20 pm on December 31, 2013: none

    I have the same issue: I’ve compiled BDB from source but dont want to install it. Can I point the configure script to my db_cxx.h somehow?

    Edit: I’ve added it to ./src/m4/bitcoin_find_bdb48.m4:

    0  bdbdirlist=/path/to/compiled/db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix/build/include
    

    Works.

  11. lrascao commented at 3:16 pm on January 17, 2014: none
    a better option would be to add a –with-db4 option to configure
  12. laanwj commented at 7:45 am on January 18, 2014: member
    Yes, or BDB_CFLAGS/BDB_LIBS as proposed in #3550
  13. coincapsig commented at 11:40 am on February 2, 2014: none
    This can be fixed by doing the following: cd ~/db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix make sudo make install Check that there is a BerkeleyDB.4.8 folder in /usr/local ls /usr/local then create a symbolic link: ln -s /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.8 /usr/include/db4.8 and then do: ln -s /usr/local/db4.8/include/* /usr/include ln -s /usr/local/db4.8/lib/* /usr/lib
  14. jameshartig commented at 5:09 am on March 26, 2014: none

    Any benefit to the symlink vs something like:

    0echo "/usr/local/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/db-4.8.30.conf
    1ldconfig
    
  15. laanwj commented at 6:57 am on March 26, 2014: member
    Or build a static library and not a shared one, so you don’t have to install the library on your system search path at all.
  16. dlio commented at 6:18 pm on April 28, 2014: none

    [centos 6.5, current bitcoin version] I seem to have successfully compiled bitcoind, however, when I try to run it, I get the following:

    ./bitcoind: error while loading shared libraries: libdb_cxx-4.8.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    Having followed the directions here, I downloaded and compiled 4.8 source, but I can’t seem to get any BerkeleyDB.4.8 folders to be generated in /usr/local. I have, however, located libdb_cxx-4.8.so in db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix/.libs

    If I simply copy or reference this .so file in the correct places, should that resolve the issue? Using ’locate libdb_cxx’ I get entries for ’libdb_cxx.so’ and ’libdb_cxx-4.7.so’ in /usr/lib64, but that’s all.

    Should I point bitcoin/src/m4/bitcoin_find_bdb48.m4, line:7, to ‘bdbdirlist=/root/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix/.libs’ ? (the db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix/build/include directory mentioned above does not exist for me).

    Copying libdb_cxx-4.8.so do /usr/lib64 does not seem to resolve the issue.

    My apologies in advance for my limited understanding. I’m still getting up to speed with several layers of abstraction involved here. Thanks in advance. Full post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=588032

  17. coincapsig commented at 6:27 pm on April 28, 2014: none
    dlio, have you tried to ‘make install’ from ‘db-4.8.30.NC/build_unix/’ ? It should put many of the files in their proper places if I remember correctly.
  18. dlio commented at 6:45 pm on April 28, 2014: none

    Thanks for the quick reply coincapsig.

    I have tried this following alexander’s method as per the above: 1. Download sources of BerkeleyDb 4.8 2. Go to /build_unix/ 3. ../dist/configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-cxx 4. make 5. (as root) make install

    but doing a locate libdb_cxx still only shows the ibdb_cxx.so and libdb_cxx-4.7.so as being in /usr/lib64/

  19. akstunt commented at 2:41 am on May 15, 2014: none

    I feel your pain dilo, I have the exact same issue on this build: Linux version 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64 (mockbuild@c6b8.bsys.dev.centos.org) (gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Tue Mar 25 19:59:55 UTC 2014

    Here is the output from the last 2 lines before ./configure fails.

    checking for Berkeley DB C++ headers… no configure: error: libdb_cxx headers missing

    I have also done as Alex has said above and it did not work for me either.

  20. laanwj commented at 9:35 am on May 15, 2014: member

    For those building libcxx from scratch, can you try following the updated steps here?

    https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md#berkeley-db

    This avoids having to install globally.

  21. chill117 commented at 9:48 pm on June 13, 2014: none

    @akstunt .. I had the same issue on Ubuntu 12.04:

    0checking for Berkeley DB C++ headers... no
    1configure: error: libdb_cxx headers missing
    

    Here’s how I fixed it:

    0sudo apt-get install libdb4.8++-dev
    

    Then just run the ./configure again.

  22. laanwj closed this on Nov 25, 2014

  23. MichaelBrenden commented at 4:40 am on February 15, 2016: none

    This exact same problem lives on. Debian 7.9 in Feb 2016.

    This solved the problem, sort of: apt-get install libdb++-dev

    The consequent new error was this: configure: error: Found Berkeley DB other than 4.8, required for portable wallets (–with-incompatible-bdb to ignore)

    Adding the above suggestion to configure allowed compilation, but this warning appeared: configure: WARNING: Found Berkeley DB other than 4.8; wallets opened by this build will not be portable!

  24. xiaoxiaoleo commented at 3:49 am on August 9, 2016: none
    @MichaelBrenden my ubuntu wily has the same problems,and use ./configure –with-incompatible-bdb solve the problems . ref:http://brianchan.us/home/2013/11/26/installing-bitcoin-in-ubuntu/
  25. ROBERT-MCDOWELL commented at 7:03 pm on January 18, 2017: none
    on Fedora 24 (and probably other redhat like) solved it with dnf install libdb4-cxx-devel
  26. chenluyong commented at 8:15 am on August 4, 2017: none
    I have a headache and I haven’t solved this problem
  27. ronaldpetty commented at 6:54 pm on September 21, 2017: none
    @chenluyong what did you try and what was the outcome?
  28. chenluyong commented at 1:47 am on September 22, 2017: none
    @ronaldpetty The problem seems to have been solved, but I haven’t recorded it
  29. radoeka commented at 12:48 pm on September 24, 2017: none
    install libdb-devel
  30. creativearmy commented at 5:59 am on November 12, 2017: none

    On Ubuntu 16.04, here is how I solved it.

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev

  31. yuexiahandao commented at 3:16 am on December 26, 2017: none

    On centos 7.4 and installed libdb、libdb-devel、libdb-cxx、libdb-cxx-devel, but the version is too high. So I searched lower version at https://www.rpmfind.net. Use rpm to install

    0rpm -ivh libdb4-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
    1rpm -ivh libdb4-devel-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
    2rpm -ivh libdb4-cxx-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm 
    3rpm -ivh libdb4-cxx-devel-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
    

    Then ./configure passed.

  32. renguzi commented at 4:05 am on December 28, 2017: none

    @yuexiahandao your suggestion helped me.thx.

    here is my env:

    0[root@localhost bitcoin]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
    1CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) 
    2[root@localhost bitcoin]# uname -rm
    33.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 x86_64
    4[root@localhost bitcoin]# 
    

    here is the problem:

    0[root@localhost bitcoin]# ./configure 
    1checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
    2checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
    3...
    4...
    5checking for MSG_NOSIGNAL... yes
    6checking for Berkeley DB C++ headers... no
    7configure: error: libdb_cxx headers missing
    8[root@localhost bitcoin]#
    

    last,the resolution is:

    0wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/l/libdb4-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
    1wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/l/libdb4-devel-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
    2wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/l/libdb4-cxx-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
    3wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/l/libdb4-cxx-devel-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
    

    and

    0rpm -ivh libdb4-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
    1rpm -ivh libdb4-devel-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
    2rpm -ivh libdb4-cxx-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm 
    3rpm -ivh libdb4-cxx-devel-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm​
    
  33. bellaj commented at 0:05 am on January 10, 2018: none
    as mentionned in build-linux file you need to install specific berkleydb sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev
  34. meatwas commented at 12:07 pm on January 11, 2018: none

    May be it will help someone:

    I had the issue with error configure: error: libdb_cxx headers missing

    My problem was related to the step sudo update-alternatives –config x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ # Set the default mingw32 g++ compiler option to posix.

    During first installation, I did everything like in instructions, but for some reason i didn’t have choice to input a number to select appropriate mingw (posix). May be I just didn’t see it. I’ve seen this comment “# Set the default mingw32 g++ compiler option to posix.” but thought that may be this command will do everything needed.

    But during second clean installation I payed more attention and selected appropriate one with posix and then stem with make HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 took much much more time and everything become ok and I didn’t have this error.

    It’s regarding official installation build-windows with WSL ubuntu 16

  35. squacky commented at 8:00 am on February 12, 2018: none
    Try to install apt install libdb++-dev. It works for me on ubuntu 16.04.
  36. malickf commented at 3:22 pm on March 3, 2018: none

    this code fix it for me :

    0    wget http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.zip
    1    unzip db-4.8.30.zip
    2    cd db-4.8.30
    3    cd build_unix/
    4    ../dist/configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-cxx
    5    make
    6    make install
    

    (source https://cryptoandcoffee.com/mining-gems/install-berkeley-4-8-db-libs-on-ubuntu-16-04/ )

  37. Zoe748 commented at 7:19 am on November 9, 2018: none
    When I try to run ./bitcoind, throw this error message: ./bitcoind: error while loading shared libraries: libdb_cxx-4.8.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. But I fixed this issue on easy way. You only need to check libdb_cxx-4.8.so is exist in /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/lib64/ (someone said need to check /usr/local/src/db-xx/build_unix/.lib/ too), then I didn’t found libdb_cxx-4.8.so in lib64, so I do sudo ln -sf /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.8/lib/libdb_cxx-4.8.so /usr/lib64/libdb_cxx-4.8.so, it works!!!! I hope it can help you.
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