INN and db 4,6

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Sep 24 17:57:43 UTC 2007


The Doctor wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 09:22:32PM +0200, Julien ÉLIE wrote:
>   
>> En réponse à The Doctor :
>>     
>>> There are very few influential environmental variables coming from ./configure .
>>>       
>> Sure, but I do not see how to make "configure" find out the right options.
>> But, first of all, is it possible to check whether "-lpthread" is necessary
>> for the build?
>> If AC_HAVE_LIBRARY(pthread, DB_LIBS="$DB_LIBS -lpthread") is added to
>> m4/berkeleydb.m4, I believe that there will be other sort of issues with
>> those who do not need the "-lpthread" flag...
>>
>> Well, if I use:
>>
>>     make DB_LIBS="-ldb -lz -lpthread" DBM_LIBS="-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib -ldb -lpthread"
>>
>> compilation works fine but it is not very user-friendly and documented.
>>
>>     
>
> Getting back to db 4.6, forget it.
>
> We need to rewrite the ovdb method for the lock.
>
> Work well in 4.4 , but beyond that, we are knackered.
>  
It may be time to pick a database source which (a) works and (b) we can 
redistribute, and stop chasing the moving target. Or (c) has anyone done 
any testing with mysql to see if we could use that?

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979




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