Re: GnuCOBOL symbol lookup error

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 9:11 AM Martti Laiho <martti.laiho@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have installed berkeley db and gnucobol-3.1-rc1 on Debian 10 Linux VM.
> Installing by "sudo ./configure && make && make install" failed on make, but
> succeeded as separate steps of
> sudo ./configure
> sudo make
> sudo make install

I don't know about the symbol problems (maybe loading an old version
of a shared object?), but a typical workflow is:

    ./configure && make && sudo make install

There's no need for sudo during configure and make. In fact, you are
advised _not_ to use sudo during configure and make. You may need sudo
for install if $prefix is a system directory, like /usr/local.

Jeff