Re: [Evolution-hackers] picky libdb3 requirements

["C.J. Collier" <cjcollier colliertech org>]

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 16:59, Chris Toshok wrote:
> A long time ago (when 3.1.17 was fairly new) we fixed on that version,
> since there have been many problems with sleepycat upgrading its db
> format in incompatible ways between minor revisions.  This won't affect
> people that always use newer libdb's but several people lost their
> addressbook after downgrading libdb.
> 
> The requirement will be upped before 1.6 to something more current,
> unless I can get rid of the libdb requirement altogether (a much more
> attractive solution in my mind).

Hear hear.  I suggest libgda/libgnomedb.  The mailing list is quite
active and the folks on it helpful.  The layer of abstraction might be
nice for configuration geeks, too.  Not to mention allowing easy support
of multiple database formats.

> Chris

Thanks for the prompt and friendly response ;)

C.J.

> 
> On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 16:26, C.J. Collier wrote:
> > Hey all.  Is this a bug?
> > 
> > checking db3 header version... configure: error: Found db.h is not
> > version 3.1.17
> > karma:/home/cjcollier/src/cvs/evolution# dpkg -l | grep libdb3-dev
> > ii  libdb3-dev     3.2.9-18       Berkeley v3 Database Libraries
> > [development]
> > 
> > Why won't 3.2.9 work?  Is there something specific to 3.1.17?  If there
> > is, who do I complain to? :)
> > 
> > C.J.
> > 
> > 
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