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Ok, |
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I have finally marked db-4.0.14 as testing. This version now uses versioned |
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symbols so that it can coexist with db-3. All packages that use db should |
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automatically link to db-4 if they support it, and else link to db-3. If that |
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is not the case (and there is no comment to that respect in the changelog) |
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please report it in bugzilla. |
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The versioned symbols cause problems with a number of packages that don't know |
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of the possibility. They look for the unversioned symbols in the library |
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which are obviously not there. This could cause problems. |
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All headers are in version specific dirs. So if you need the db3 headers, they |
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are in /usr/include/db3/db.h . To get best compatibility there are links in |
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/usr/include that point to the latest version of the header. db-3.2.9-r6 is |
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changed to follow this. |
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The same thing holds for libdb.so, it is automatically set up to point to the |
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latest library. If you want to link db-3.2.9 then specify -ldb-3 instead of |
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-ldb. Some packages try -ldb3 which will not work, as that is not the |
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recommended way of db versioning. |
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Last the utilities that come with db also have the version number in their |
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name, so db_archive is now called db3_archive for db3 and db4_archive for |
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db4. This way they can coexist. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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