Re: [Evolution-hackers] picky libdb3 requirements

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 20:16, C.J. Collier wrote:
> 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.

except that none of these things matter... and would only make things
worse (if you think a dep on libdb3-3.1.17 is bad...)

Jeff

> 
> > 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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