[oi-dev] 1262 Berkeley-db package

[Bayard Bell]

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.

Cheers,
Bayard

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Guido Berhoerster <gber at openindiana.org>wrote:

> * Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail.com> [2011-10-05 01:31]:
> >
> > On 3 Oct 2011, at 23:31, Bayard G. Bell wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 17:08 -0400, Alex Viskovatoff wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 16:34 -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> > >>> Bayard made a good point, one will generally want multiple versions
> of
> > >>> bdb.
> > >>> Thoughts about having bdb-4.8 (and bdb-5.2)?
> > >>
> > >> Can you or he give examples of why one would want that? It would be a
> > >> nuisance, because one would have to decide on some naming convention,
> so
> > >> that multiple versions could be installed together. Do Linux
> > >> distributions ship multiple versions of bdb?
> > >
> > > Ubuntu, for example, delivers libdb4.6, libdb4.7, and libdb4.8 for
> > > libraries. (I'm running BackTrack 5, which is based off 10.04, so this
> > > is a bit dated.) The distro simply doesn't deliver any links to the
> > > libraries, so everything has to decide which version to link against by
> > > both major and minor version. I've ended up with one each for the core
> C
> > > runtime because I have essentially three packages, each using a
> > > different version. I've seen similar things in other porting
> > > environments, which leads me to suspect that, if there's a nuisance
> > > argument, it's that, as a porting system carries more packages, it
> > > decides the greatest nuisance is forcing them all to use one version of
> > > BDB.
> >
> > That's an important point.
> >
> > That presumably means drop:
> >
> > link path=usr/lib/libdb-4.so target=libdb-4.8.so
> > link path=usr/lib/libdb.so target=libdb-4.8.so
>
> You should have those links at least for the "default version" so
> the linker finds it when passed -ldb.
> --
> Guido Berhoerster
>
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