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From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion emerge fails
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:38:02
Message-Id: 20080609093719.389d2b6c@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Subversion emerge fails by Dirk Uys
1 On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 12:52:03 +0200
2 "Dirk Uys" <dirkcuys@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Hi everyone.
5 >
6 > When I emerge subversion, i get the following error:
7 >
8 > <snip>
9 > checking for availability of Berkeley DB... no
10 > configure: error: Berkeley DB 4.0.14 wasn't found.
11 >
12 > !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
13 > !!! /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/subversion-1.5.0_rc5/work/subversion-1.5.0-rc5/config.log
14 > *
15 > * ERROR: dev-util/subversion-1.5.0_rc5 failed.
16 > ...
17 > </snip>
18 >
19 > Here is the output of eix sys-libs/db:
20 >
21 > <snip>
22 > [D] sys-libs/db
23 > Available versions:
24 > (1) *1.85-r1 1.85-r3
25 > (3) 3.2.9-r11
26 > (4.2) 4.2.52_p4-r2
27 > (4.3) 4.3.29-r2
28 > (4.4) (~)4.4.20_p4
29 > (4.5) 4.5.20_p2
30 > (4.6) (~)4.6.19 (~)4.6.21
31 > {bootstrap doc elibc_FreeBSD java nocxx tcl test}
32 > Installed versions: 4.3.29-r2(4.3)(02:52:26 04/20/07)(-bootstrap
33 > -doc -elibc_FreeBSD -java -nocxx -tcl -test)
34 > 4.5.20_p2(4.5)(22:43:07 04/14/08)(-bootstrap
35 > -doc -elibc_FreeBSD -java -nocxx -tcl -test)
36 > 4.6.21_p1(4.6)(20:12:09 06/07/08)(-bootstrap
37 > -doc -elibc_FreeBSD -java -nocxx -tcl -test)
38 > Homepage:
39 > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/index.html
40 > Description: Oracle Berkeley DB
41 > </snip>
42 >
43 > I'm running ~x86, so I don't expect things to always work. Is this a
44 > bug, or is there something else wrong?
45 >
46 > Regards
47 > Dirk
48
49
50 Why don't you just disable the berkdb USE-flag? The usage of
51 subversion's database backend is discouraged anyway (for most use
52 cases).

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