wrong path for geoip-directory

[MAYER Hans]

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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