Re: release notes: db3 requirement

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:16:00AM -0600, John Fleck wrote:
> > Malcolm (and therefore I) have confusion about the db3 requirement. Can
> > someone explain what specifically is required to build GNOME2? Bonus
> > points for being able to explain what it's called and how it's packaged
> > by the various distributions.
> 
> My confusion is mostly about what is the difference between the db3 and
> db3x packages on Red Hat 7 distributions. I *believe* that db3 and
> db3-devel is enough, but maybe somebody can confirm this.
> 

You can compile gnome2 without having db3 at all, AFAIK.

> Of course, I could maybe just stop being a lazy sod and hunt out the
> appropriate m4 macro that the configure use to detect it, but that would
> involve actual work. :(
> 
> Malcolm
> 
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