Re: Patch to build db in the tree.

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:40:37AM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Mo DeJong <mdejong@cygnus.com> writes:
> > Humm. I was under the impression that neon did not
> > have a public CVS either, how is this any different?
>
> Two differences:
>
> 1. Many systems come with Berkeley DB pre-installed; among the
> free Unices, it's pretty much a standard system library, I
> think.
>

Would that it were that easy. Version 2 is a standard system library
on Debian at least as far back as stable, as it is on RedHat. But
debian doesn't even have a package for db3. So using the system db
library isn't really an option.

And anyway, don't we require 3.2.9 now?
           
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