Berkeley DB compatibility problems

I had problems getting Subversion to compile on a Debian server and
a RedHat server, both of which were lacking the db-4.2 package.

For reference, here's how I solved it:

1. Compile and install db-4.2.52.tar.gz

2. For a non-root installation, add this line to ~/.bash_profile:

         export LD_PRELOAD=/home/me/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib/libdb.so

    This tells the configure script where to find the db-4.2 libraries.
    For a root install, I instead added "/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib"
    to /etc/ld.so.conf and re-ran ldconfig.

3. I downloaded apr-util-APU_0_9_BRANCH_20031230052737.tar.gz and
    copied the "configure.in" and "build/dbm.m4" files from it,
    which was suggested here:

    http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2003-12/0312.shtml

    (Without changes #2 and #3, the ./configure command would fail.)

4. I ran configure (these options are for the non-root install):

    ./configure --prefix=/home/me/local/ \
      --with-berkeley-db=/home/me/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib/ \
      --with-dbm=db42 --with-ssl\
      --enable-maintainer-mode --disable-mod-activation

5. Ran "make" and "make install". For non-root install, I had
    to first edit the Makefile to remove "install-mods-shared",
    since otherwise it tries to copy files into an Apache folder.

I'm not sure why other people haven't encountered the problems
above, but maybe these notes will be useful to someone else.

Cheers,
-Pete

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Received on Thu Jan 15 03:15:43 2004