Re: /usr/include/db1/ndbm.h no more in libc6 ...
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:18:27AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:19:04AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Hello, ...
> >
> > I have a package who used to use /usr/include/db1/ndbm.h to build ndbm
> > support, which worked fine with libc6 versions prior to 2.3.1.
> >
> > Now, this file seem to have vanished from the latest libc6. Is that an
> > intentional thing, and if yes, what are the new way of using dbm support ?
> >
> > I currently hacked my package so it use the gdbm-ndbm.h from
> > libgdbmg1-dev, which seems to work, and am about to send a patch
> > upstream about this, but would want to know what exactly is going on, so
> > i can provide a cleaner patch that may also be working in the future.
>
> You can also use the dbm interfaces in all the libdb packages (including
> the latest db4.0). They are all binary compatible on-disk formats.
Well, my problem is that the package does not enable the support at
compile time when it does not detect a ndbm.h. So i would have to build
depend on a package providing an ndbm.h (currently it looks at
/usr/include, /usr/include/db1 and /usr/include/gdbm) but is not happy
for a gdbm-ndbm.h.
> db1 support in glibc 2.2 was hacked in. It was never there upstream. For
> glibc 2.3, we dropped the hack. The db1-compat package provides binary
Ok, but a changelog entry would have been handy.
> compatibility, but as noted many times, compile time needs to use the
> dbm interfaces in libdb4.0-dev
Ok, so i should build-depend on libdb4.0-dev ? It conflicts with
libbonobo-conf-dev, libbonobo-dev, libdb3-dev, libgdk-pixbuf-gnome-dev,
libglade-gnome0-dev, libgnome-dev and libgnomeprint-dev though.
...
Mmm, it provides a /usr/include/db.h though, and not a /usr/include/ndbm.h,
are those the same things ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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