Re: [gnome-db] compiling gnome - db-1.85 stuff

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 12:15, Daniel Morgan wrote:
> This is what I would call "DLL Hell" on the Windows platform.  I don't know
> what you would call it on Linux or Unix though. :-(
> 
> One thing, slackware db you are talking about isn't the same thing as
> gnome-db nor libgda.  I could be wrong though.  Gnome-db and libgda are not
> a DBMS, but a generic and powerful way to access data including data from
> databases, XML, etc...  However, I must admit that libgda does come with a
> "default provider" which is a provider to the SQL Lite database that is
> included with libgda -- but that is just for testing configurations.
> :-)
> 
> Are you talking about dbm?
> 
it is berkeley DB what he talks about. gnome-libs use it for storing
some data files.

But newer gnome-libs version should compile with any Berkeley DB
version, AFAIR, and not require db-1.85 explicitly.

cheers
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