The "ndbm" Perl links with (the dbmmanage script is written in Perl) is actually
Berkeley DB, so force DBM to be Berkeley DB for httpd, too.
--- apache_1.3.27/src/helpers/find-dbm-lib	2002-01-22 02:39:15.000000000 -0500
+++ apache_1.3.27/src/helpers/find-dbm-lib	2002-10-23 14:45:48.000000000 -0400
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
 	    *-linux*)
 		# many systems don't have -ldbm
 		DBM_LIB=""
-		if ./helpers/TestCompile lib ndbm dbm_open; then
+		if ./helpers/TestCompile lib db ; then
+		    DBM_LIB="-ldb"
+		elif ./helpers/TestCompile lib ndbm dbm_open; then
 		    DBM_LIB="-lndbm"
 		    if ./helpers/TestCompile lib db1 dbm_open; then
 			# Red Hat needs this; ndbm.h lives in db1