Was this ever committed? I reckon we need libdb (I need it for something ATM), and I don't find it in the history. I'm happy to pick this up and run with it.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Bayard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Guido Berhoerster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gber@openindiana.org">gber@openindiana.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
* Alasdair Lumsden <<a href="mailto:alasdairrr@gmail.com">alasdairrr@gmail.com</a>> [2011-10-05 01:31]:<br>
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> On 3 Oct 2011, at 23:31, Bayard G. Bell wrote:<br>
><br>
> > On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 17:08 -0400, Alex Viskovatoff wrote:<br>
> >> On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 16:34 -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:<br>
> >>> Bayard made a good point, one will generally want multiple versions of<br>
> >>> bdb.<br>
> >>> Thoughts about having bdb-4.8 (and bdb-5.2)?<br>
> >><br>
> >> Can you or he give examples of why one would want that? It would be a<br>
> >> nuisance, because one would have to decide on some naming convention, so<br>
> >> that multiple versions could be installed together. Do Linux<br>
> >> distributions ship multiple versions of bdb?<br>
> ><br>
> > Ubuntu, for example, delivers libdb4.6, libdb4.7, and libdb4.8 for<br>
> > libraries. (I'm running BackTrack 5, which is based off 10.04, so this<br>
> > is a bit dated.) The distro simply doesn't deliver any links to the<br>
> > libraries, so everything has to decide which version to link against by<br>
> > both major and minor version. I've ended up with one each for the core C<br>
> > runtime because I have essentially three packages, each using a<br>
> > different version. I've seen similar things in other porting<br>
> > environments, which leads me to suspect that, if there's a nuisance<br>
> > argument, it's that, as a porting system carries more packages, it<br>
> > decides the greatest nuisance is forcing them all to use one version of<br>
> > BDB.<br>
><br>
> That's an important point.<br>
><br>
> That presumably means drop:<br>
><br>
> link path=usr/lib/libdb-4.so target=<a href="http://libdb-4.8.so" target="_blank">libdb-4.8.so</a><br>
> link path=usr/lib/libdb.so target=<a href="http://libdb-4.8.so" target="_blank">libdb-4.8.so</a><br>
<br>
</div></div>You should have those links at least for the "default version" so<br>
the linker finds it when passed -ldb.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Guido Berhoerster<br>
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