Re: new libdb2 and building packages

[Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Ben Collins wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 03:41:47PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> > /usr/include/db* is symlinked to /usr/include/db2
> >
> > Is there a prefered location for building? (ie, which one will stay)?
> 
> IMO, you are better off doing:
> 
> #include <db2/db.h>
> 
> and -ldb2
> 
> This way you get explicity this version (makes even more sense when db3
> gets into the archive, which I hope has it's headers in db3/).

Cool, thats what I was hoping for ;-}

Now, are we going to have this problem again when db3 hits? Or are these
symbols versioned so that, say, sendmail can use db3 whilst the sasl/ldap
its compiled/linked against are still using db2?

Thanks,
-- 
Rick Nelson
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