Re: svn commit: r1390674 - /subversion/trunk/build/ac-macros/berkeley-db.m4

[Ben Reser]
> Just confirming what brane said above is the reason why I did not try
> to just build detection of BDB into our configure system. Figuring
> out if it's safe to link to some BDB that we find ourselves is
> actually really hard. If we could ask APR-Util what version of BDB it
> was built against it might be easier, but there's no way to query
> that, it only says if BDB is available or not.

Interestingly, the case you tried to fix - libraries with
Debian-derived packaging - is also a case where it _is_ safe to link to
multiple versions of db in the same app. But you're right, on many
other platforms, it is not safe.
Received on 2012-09-27 00:30:06 CEST