gdbm install problem on IRIX - can't open libgdbm.so.3.0

[Neil R. Smith]

Hi,
I'm having a problem building gdbm 1.8.0 on IRIX 6.5.12. The 
configure and make completes successfully. The 'make install'
procedure fails complaining it can't find the .so in the .libs
directory:

# make prefix=/usr/freeware srcdir=/usr/freeware/src/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.0
install
        /usr/freeware/src/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.0/mkinstalldirs
/usr/freeware/lib /usr/freeware/include /usr/freeware/man/man3
/usr/freeware/info
        /bin/sh ./libtool install -c libgdbm.la
/usr/freeware/lib/libgdbm.la
install -c .libs/libgdbm.so.3.0 /usr/freeware/lib/libgdbm.so.3.0
install: can't open libgdbm.so.3.0: No such file or directory.
*** Error code 2 (bu21)

However this is the listing for dir. .libs in the src build dir.:

# pwd
/usr/freeware/src/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.0
# ls -l .libs
total 400
-rw-r--r--    1 root     sys       133396 Nov 24 23:08 libgdbm.a
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys           13 Nov 24 23:08 libgdbm.la ->
../libgdbm.la
-rw-r--r--    1 root     sys          651 Nov 24 23:08 libgdbm.lai
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys           14 Nov 24 23:08 libgdbm.so ->
libgdbm.so.3.0*
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys           14 Nov 24 23:08 libgdbm.so.3 ->
libgdbm.so.3.0*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        60564 Nov 24 23:08 libgdbm.so.3.0*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     sys           92 Nov 24 23:08 so_locations

I don't understand why it can't find libgdbm.so.3.0 when it is 
obviously there, even with the prefix and srcdir variables
defined. This error is present even with the variables 
defined at the ./configure step.

This distro is ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.0.tar.gz
and I applied the 'patches' file that comes with the distro.

Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks, -Neil
-- 
Neil R. Smith, Comp. Sys. Mngr.         address@hidden
Dept. Atmospheric Sci., Texas A&M Univ. 979/845-6272 FAX:979/862-4466