build: Need options to specify BDB location #3921

1. 
   laanwj commented at 7:28 am on March 21, 2014: member

   Many people compile BerkeleyDb 4.8 themselves and understandably don’t want to install it system-wide.

   I’d suggest the following names:

   0--with-bdb-libdir=
   1--with-bdb-includedir=
   

   One can always override LDFLAGS and CFLAGS to find them manually, don’t forget that you need to manualy specify optimization flags in that case ie:

   0./configure LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/libs" CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/includes -O2"
   

   But it’d be easier if there was a flag for this as it is very common now.

   Alternative would be BDB_CFLAGS and BDB_LIBS, analogous to SSL_CFLAGS and SSL_LIBS.

2. laanwj added the label Build system on Mar 21, 2014
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   theuni commented at 5:29 pm on April 7, 2014: member

   @luke-jr: another one for bitcoin_find_bdb48.m4. Again, I’ll take this on, just giving you first dibs.
5. 
   laanwj commented at 6:45 am on September 28, 2016: member

   I’m trying to build Bitcoin Core on FreeBSD and would be very much helped by this. Also in our build guides we routinely override LDFLAGS/CXXFLAGS for this purpose, which shouldn’t be necessary if there was an option or a specific env variable for this:

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

   Anyone up for this? I can try to do it myself but I don’t know that much about m4 and will probably come up with a hacky solution.

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11. 
    laanwj commented at 2:00 pm on February 8, 2017: member

    Fixed by #9705
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