- Berkeley DB Reference Guide:
- Building Berkeley DB for UNIX systems
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Installing Berkeley DB
Berkeley DB installs the following files into the following locations, with the
following default values:
Configuration Variables | Default value |
--prefix | /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.Major.Minor |
--exec_prefix | $(prefix) |
--bindir | $(exec_prefix)/bin |
--includedir | $(prefix)/include |
--libdir | $(exec_prefix)/lib |
docdir | $(prefix)/docs |
Files | Default location |
include files | $(includedir) |
libraries | $(libdir) |
utilities | $(bindir) |
documentation | $(docdir) |
With one exception, this follows the GNU Autoconf and GNU Coding
Standards installation guidelines; please see that documentation for
more information and rationale.
The single exception is the Berkeley DB documentation. The Berkeley DB
documentation is provided in HTML format, not in UNIX-style man or GNU
info format. For this reason, Berkeley DB configuration does not support
--infodir or --mandir. To change the default
installation location for the Berkeley DB documentation, modify the Makefile
variable, docdir.
When installing Berkeley DB on filesystems shared by machines of different
architectures, please note that although Berkeley DB include files are
installed based on the value of $(prefix), rather than $(exec_prefix),
the Berkeley DB include files are not always architecture independent.
To move the entire installation tree to somewhere besides
/usr/local, change the value of prefix.
To move the binaries and libraries to a different location, change the
value of exec_prefix. The values of includedir and
libdir may be similarly changed.
Any of these values except for docdir may be set as part of
the configuration:
prompt: ../dist/configure --bindir=/usr/local/bin
Any of these values, including docdir, may be changed when doing
the install itself:
prompt: make prefix=/usr/contrib/bdb install
The Berkeley DB installation process will attempt to create any directories that
do not already exist on the system.
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