moin, as from the configure sources no reason becomes apparent why bdb should not be automatically used, but it still isn't, the attached patch fixes this behavior.
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diff -r c15eeb44f139 configure.ac --- a/configure.ac Thu Oct 11 12:10:49 2007 +0200 +++ b/configure.ac Sat Oct 13 14:15:15 2007 +0200 @@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ then dnl -- BDB -- ac_bdb_prefix="$with_bdb" if test x$ac_bdb_prefix != xno && test x$ac_cv_gdbmopen != xyes && test $use_qdbm != yes; then - test x$ac_bdb_prefix = xyes && ac_bdb_prefix="$mutt_cv_prefix /opt/csw/bdb4 /opt /usr/local /usr" + { test x$ac_bdb_prefix = xyes || test x$ac_bdb_prefix = x; } && ac_bdb_prefix="$mutt_cv_prefix /opt/csw/bdb4 /opt /usr/local /usr" for d in $ac_bdb_prefix; do bdbpfx="$bdbpfx $d" for v in BerkeleyDB.4.3 BerkeleyDB.4.2 BerkeleyDB.4.1; do