Since my Xm.h is /usr/include/Xm/Xm.h, mozilla/config/mkdetect/detect_motif.sh returns /usr/include, which is then put before the build specific includes which ends up including /usr/include/ndbm.h rather than mozilla/dbm/include/ndbm.h. I'm just getting started with Mozilla so I don't know The Right Way to fix this yet but I would suggest either making detect_motif.sh return anything but /usr/include or reordering the includes so this comes after the build specific includes. My kludge was just to make detect set MOTIF_INCLUDE_DIR="", which works for me. My last CVS update was 2 Oct 1998.

I don't know what to suggest, except maybe adding a symlink under /usr/X11R6/include pointing to Xm. Ramiro, what do you think? What about adding more possible locations (/usr/include/X11 seems like a reasonable place for Xm, to me anyway)? Anyway, reassigning to Ramiro.

Thats what MOZILLA_MOTIF_INCLUDE_SEARCH_PATH is for: export MOZILLA_MOTIF_INCLUDE_SEARCH_PATH="" should solve your problem without having to hack detect_motif.sh. The real fix is to rename the dbm files so as not to conflict with the "native" ones. Marking fixed.

marking verified against old code base