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Re: DB3 symbol collisions solved...



On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 02:15:43PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > > Er, no he isn't. Look at what he has done and look at the result. He made
> > > a program just like slapd that is linked to db3 but is really using db2
> > > when sasl is involved. He has proved this by the simple fact that the
> > > db_version symbol gets linked to db2 in his test program in the presense
> > > of sasl.
> 
> > Damn, I didn't look close enough at his test. This very much sucks. The
> > odd thing is that slapd actually does use the db3 symbols. It would surely
> > crash otherwise, considering it uses things only found in db3. Plus the
> > fact that I inserted a db_version call into slapd to test it.
> 
> > Ben...whois is checking this out some more...
> 
> Ben,
> 
> Didn't you say that you managed this trick by modifying the header files?
> Herbert mentioned that he had not installed db3-devel -- he was still using
> the headers from db2, instead...

No, I produced a header that I used to trick the build, but it doesn't
affect db.h

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