Not so much a 'pathing' problem as a problem of the compiler not knowing where to look. Your best bet - assuming that you don't want to hack the Makefile - is to look at the paths specified by the '-L' option (which reads '-L/usr/local/lib') and to create a symlink in that directory to wherever 'libdb.a' lives. E.g., if 'libdb.a' is in '/usr/lib/', then you should do "ln -s /usr/lib/libdb.a /usr/local/lib'.

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