wrong path for geoip-directory

[Mark Andrews]

Did you try re-running configure with ‘--with-maxminddb=/usr’ and then recompiling?

What does 'named -V’ report when you do this?

--with-maxminddb is used to find the header (include) files, the library and the database.  These should all be relative to a common prefix which is what you specify.

You also missed the leading ‘/‘ on the path when you ran configure previously as it is not in the path reported below.  This all said you should be able just specify —-with-geoip=yes and configure will figure out the rest.

Mark

> On 17 May 2022, at 06:09, MAYER Hans <Hans.Mayer at iiasa.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Dear All, 
> 
> I posted my question originally at GitLab issue area because I thought it’s maybe a bug. But it isn’t. 
> 
> I compiled commit c77fcc61 (HEAD -> v9_18, origin/v9_18) with configure options
> --enable-geoip  --with-maxminddb=/usr/share/GeoIP
> when i run named -V there is:
> 
> default paths:
>  named configuration:  /usr/local/etc/named.conf
>  rndc configuration:   /usr/local/etc/rndc.conf
>  DNSSEC root key:      /usr/local/etc/bind.keys
>  nsupdate session key: /usr/local/var/run/named/session.key
>  named PID file:       /usr/local/var/run/named/named.pid
>  named lock file:      /usr/local/var/run/named/named.lock
>  geoip-directory:      usr/share/GeoIP/share/GeoIP
> 
> 
> The geoip-directory is quite strange as it doesn't exist
> OS is Debian 11.3 ( bullseye ) with latest patch level.
> pkg libmaxminddb-dev and libmaxminddb0 are installed. 
> 
> Mark was so nice and replied for this issue request. 
> 
> "Use --with-maxminddb=/usr. share/GeoIP is appended to this configure argument. This is the same as libraries where /include and /lib are appended to the configure argument.“ 
> 
> If I understand correctly "--with-maxminddb" is a relative path and will be add to "--prefix" which is in my case /usr/local 
> To work well I should compile with option --with-maxminddb=GeoIP and I make a symbolic link from /usr/local/GeoIP to /usr/share/GeoIP
> 
> But when I run configure with --with-maxminddb=GeoIP the following „make“ terminates with an error: 
> ../../libtool: line 7563: cd: GeoIP/lib: No such file or directory
> libtool:   error: cannot determine absolute directory name of 'GeoIP/lib'
> 
> Which is also quite curios because below /usr/share/GeoIP there is no directory „lib“ but with --with-maxminddb=/usr/share/GeoIP it compiles well. 
> 
> How to compile bind with the maxmind db located in /usr/share/GeoIP ? 
> Any help would be appreciated. 
> 
> 
> Kind regards 
> Hans 
> 
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