From e6b89850902c56076ea15197501d3cb5a1cc47f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas von Dein <tom@vondein.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:21:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add error if no db lib found, add better ci build and test

---
 .woodpecker/build.yaml | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 meson.build            |  8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.woodpecker/build.yaml b/.woodpecker/build.yaml
index ff6b4de..b3be1be 100644
--- a/.woodpecker/build.yaml
+++ b/.woodpecker/build.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ labels:
   platform: ${platform}
     
 steps:
-  build-n-test:
+  build-berkeley:
     when:
       event: [push]
     image: alpine:latest
@@ -15,3 +15,17 @@ steps:
       - apk add --no-cache bash build-base words-en gdb perl pcre2 pcre2-dev db db-dev pkgconfig meson ninja
       - meson setup --reconfigure build
       - ninja -C build
+      - build/dbtool -d test.db -i -k "test" -v "blah blah blah"
+      - build/dbtool -d test.db -D | grep blah
+
+  build-gdbm:
+    when:
+      event: [push]
+    image: alpine:latest
+    commands:
+      - apk update
+      - apk add --no-cache bash build-base words-en gdb perl pcre2 pcre2-dev gdbm gdbm-dev pkgconfig meson ninja
+      - meson setup --reconfigure build
+      - ninja -C build
+      - build/dbtool -d test.db -i -k "test" -v "blah blah blah"
+      - build/dbtool -d test.db -D | grep blah
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 7d90d37..cf64010 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -46,15 +46,19 @@ pcre2 = dependency('libpcre2-8')
 
 
 # manually check for libraries
-lib_berkeley = cpp.find_library('db_cxx',
+lib_berkeley = cpp.find_library('db_cxx', required: false,
                dirs : ['/usr', '/usr/local'])
 inc_berkeley = include_directories('/usr', '/usr/local')
 
-lib_gdbm = cpp.find_library('gdbm',
+lib_gdbm = cpp.find_library('gdbm', required: false,
                dirs : ['/usr', '/usr/local'])
 inc_gdbm = include_directories('/usr', '/usr/local')
 
 
+if not lib_gdbm.found() and not lib_berkeley.found()
+  error('neither GDBM nor BerkeleyDB are installed')
+endif
+
 # check commandline options
 prefix = get_option('prefix')