Berkeley DB questions

Julien ÉLIE julien at trigofacile.com
Mon May 5 21:30:16 UTC 2008


Hi Russ,

I answer to a thread which dates back to August 2007.

>> I see that Berkeley DB version is currently 4.6.18 and I wonder whether
>> something better than:
>
>> /m4/berkeleydb.m4
>>         for version in BerkeleyDB.4.4 BerkeleyDB.4.3 BerkeleyDB.4.2 \
>>                        BerkeleyDB.4.1 BerkeleyDB.4.0 \
>>                        BerkeleyDB.3.3 BerkeleyDB.3.2 BerkeleyDB.3.1 \
>>                        BerkeleyDB.3.0 BerkeleyDB ; do
>> [...]
>>         for version in db44 db43 db42 db41 db4 db3 db2 ; do
>
>> could be done...
>
> That would be nice.  I'm half-tempted to just make the user say where
> their BerkeleyDB libraries are if they're not in the regular system
> locations rather than looking in all these "likely" places.

Done:  configure now only looks in $prefix, /usr and /usr/local.


> I've been tempted to rip out support for all versions older than 4.2 for
> quite a while, as it would make the code much simpler and avoid a lot of
> #ifdef mazes.

Also done for versions older than 4.4.
I also tried not to forget occurrences of such versions in documentation and
other files.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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