gnome-lib woes

["Buch, Bill" <bbuch fmgnet com>]

Which would be better to do.
Get libdb version 2.6.4 and compile that
or
Get the newer version of libc which comes with a libdb.

If the first route is better, how do I create a shared library.  Doing a
make only makes the static library.  So I compile everything fine, but when
i run gnome-gen-mimedb, it cannot find the shared library libdb.so.1

HELP!!!

Thanks.
Bill