Re: freebsd questions

Philip Martin wrote:
> The problem comes when Apache, via APR-UTIL I think, has BDB symbols
> that come from an incompatible BDB. In your case you are using GDBM
> which doesn't provide BDB symbols.

Yes, that's the problem. It should be resolved by the approach you
mention below - but I haven't tested it.

> Debian plays a few other tricks as well, run nm on a Debian BDB 4
> library and you will see symbols like __db_open_4000, a plain
> tarball BDB 4 gives symbols like __db_open. I think this means that
> Debian's BDB 3 and BDB 4 can coexist. Do other distributions do
> this?

Well, it is obtained with simply by passing "--with-uniquename" to the
build. So if other distributions are not doing this, I say they
should.

> If configure finds APR-UTIL using a BDB that is different from the
> Subversion requirement it should at least produce a warning. An
> error that requires some overriding command line switch might be
> better.

Well this I can agree with - binaries produced by a package maintainer
are tested. Binaries produced by a user are not - and it helps finding
out the problem if one doesn't have to worry about this sort of stuff.

-- Naked

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Received on Mon Oct 28 17:30:39 2002