Re: [gnome-db] Using system sqlite by default?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 15:57 +0100, Vivien Malerba wrote:
> On 27 November 2010 15:42, Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I was wondering why the default in libgda is to use the embedded sqlite.
> > As distributions usually have security updates for sqlite very quickly
> > most of them use their system-installed sqlite anyway (debian/ubuntu).
> >
> > Is there a reason why the system sqlite isn't used by default when it is
> > compiled with the necessary flags?
> 
> No, there is not. I guess the configure.ac file can easily be changed
> to have the system version selected if available. However, doing this
> would make all the packagers update their scripts, which is not a good
> idea.

So is there ever a reason to use the copy of the sqlite source code
that's in libgda?

If the installed one needs to have been built with specific options, how
can we check for that?

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