Re: libdb.so.3 blues [was: package bug in xfree86-common (4.0.1-0phase2v10)]
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:59:16PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:34:31PM -0700, Simon deWeerdt wrote:
> > Have a dependancy problem I can't satisfy.
> [...]
> > Setting up xfree86-common (4.0.1-0phase2v10) ...
> > perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> [...]
> > I can't find a deb for libdb3.0 in unstable
> >
> > If there is one in a maintainers directory I'll apt-get it.
>
> You've just seen the first in what will probably be a long line of bloody
> corpses generated by Ben Collins's glibc 2.1.94 upload.
>
> I am probably going to downgrade my build box to glibc 2.1.3-10 and stick
> with that. Progeny is about to enter freeze for our release and I'd like
> to delay a fork between Debian's X packages and Progeny's for as long as
> possible.
You know, if you force X to use libdb2, it will work with 2.1.3 and
2.1.94. The easy (not sure how easy in terms of the X build) is to replace
<db.h> with <db2/db.h> and -ldb with -ldb2.
Ben
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