Mention need for db dev package
[README] Mention need for db dev package
This has always been an annoyance for me whenever i moved to a new
machine. Just mention it in the readme hoping it will save someone
some cycles
Signed-off-by: J Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
diff --git a/README b/README
index d86f605..7d54bd2 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
KERNEL_INCLUDE should point to correct linux kernel include directory.
Default (/usr/src/linux/include) is right as rule.
+arpd needs to have the db4 development libraries. For debian
+users this is the package with a name like libdb4.x-dev.
DBM_INCLUDE points to the directory with db_185.h which
is the include file used by arpd to get to the old format Berkely
database routines. Often this is in the db-devel package.