Re: [Evolution-hackers] Removing libdb from EDS source

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Ross,

IIRC, it was done because, every libdb update broke Evolution or libdb
wasn't so stable release over release. Also OpenSUSE uses statically
linked libdb. But most of the hackers I know, dynamically link libdb.
I'm favor of the change. But lemme ping some old evolution hackers who
were part of this change, to understand what they feel about it. 

-Srini
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 14:42 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think that we should remove the fork of Berkeley DB from the Evolution
> Data Server source.  Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo and Fedora all use
> --with-libdb to dynamically link to a system library, so it is known to
> work.
> 
> This would involve removing libdb from svn, and always dynamically
> linking to libdb instead.  --with-libdb would still exist for people who
> want to use a custom libdb, but it would default to /usr.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Ross
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