Re: dblibs

[Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>]

Le Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:03:54PM -0500, Kermit Tensmeyer écrivait:
>  Can someone explain to me, the hows and whys of libdb and libdb2 as
> used in Debian 2.1.

libdb == libdb2. It's provided by the glibc2.1 ...

If you want to use the old db 1.85 you must compile your programs with
-ldb1

>   It seems that a fair number of program, utilities and 'features'
> seem to use the 1.85 version, but there is also a 2.4.14 set in
> /usr/lib, and a symbolic link to libdb2.

libdb2 is in /lib, but there are some symlinks in /usr/lib

>  I tried to upgrade a system (libdb 2.7.5 libdb.a libdb.so, and
> include files), for building perl5, apache and mod-perl, but a number
> of items broke almost at once.

Concerning perl. All perl-5.004 are built with libdb1 (db 1.85) but
the new perl-5.005 is built with libdb2.

What specific problem do you want to solve ? 

Cheers,
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