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

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

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?

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

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.

gongchengra commented at 11:28 AM on October 16, 2013: none

Same problem on ubuntu 13.04.

gongchengra commented at 11:50 AM on October 16, 2013: none

sudo apt-get install libdb++-dev solves my problem.

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.

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

Download sources of BerkeleyDb 4.8
Go to <path to BDB folder>/build_unix/
../dist/configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-cxx
make
(as root) make install

tjuryakin commented at 2:01 PM on December 5, 2013: none

Alex, thank you!

donSchoe commented at 2:20 PM on December 31, 2013: none

<del>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?</del>

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

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

Works.

lrascao commented at 3:16 PM on January 17, 2014: none

a better option would be to add a --with-db4 option to configure

laanwj commented at 7:45 AM on January 18, 2014: member

Yes, or BDB_CFLAGS/BDB_LIBS as proposed in #3550

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

jameshartig commented at 5:09 AM on March 26, 2014: none

Any benefit to the symlink vs something like:

echo "/usr/local/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/db-4.8.30.conf
ldconfig

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.

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

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.

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/

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.

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.

chill117 commented at 9:48 PM on June 13, 2014: none

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

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

Here's how I fixed it:

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

Then just run the ./configure again.

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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!

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/

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

chenluyong commented at 8:15 AM on August 4, 2017: none

I have a headache and I haven't solved this problem

ronaldpetty commented at 6:54 PM on September 21, 2017: none

@chenluyong what did you try and what was the outcome?

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

radoeka commented at 12:48 PM on September 24, 2017: none

install libdb-devel

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

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

rpm -ivh libdb4-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh libdb4-devel-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh libdb4-cxx-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm 
rpm -ivh libdb4-cxx-devel-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm

Then ./configure passed.

renguzi commented at 4:05 AM on December 28, 2017: none

@yuexiahandao your suggestion helped me.thx.

here is my env:

[root@localhost bitcoin]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) 
[root@localhost bitcoin]# uname -rm
3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 x86_64
[root@localhost bitcoin]#

here is the problem:

[root@localhost bitcoin]# ./configure 
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
...
...
checking for MSG_NOSIGNAL... yes
checking for Berkeley DB C++ headers... no
configure: error: libdb_cxx headers missing
[root@localhost bitcoin]#

last,the resolution is:

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

and

rpm -ivh libdb4-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh libdb4-devel-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh libdb4-cxx-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm 
rpm -ivh libdb4-cxx-devel-4.8.30-13.el7.x86_64.rpm

bellaj commented at 12:05 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

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

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.

malickf commented at 3:22 PM on March 3, 2018: none

this code fix it for me :

    wget http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.zip
    unzip db-4.8.30.zip
    cd db-4.8.30
    cd build_unix/
    ../dist/configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-cxx
    make
    make install

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

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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