Re: Missing my libdb

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Did you compile db with 1.85 compatibility turned on?  If not, then that
would be your problem.  I think this is documented somewhere.

James.

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On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Frederic Leger wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> well, first of all, I have to explain that I am not in a usual case as I am on
> a UNIX machine. I use Enlightenment, ad would like to get all the GNOME
> features too.
> 
> So I got all the GNOME tar.gz required files, but now I fall on a problem that
> seems very hard to understand to me.
> 
> When compiling the gnome-libs-XXX, the configure process always fail on the
> dbopen() test.
> 
> I went to the http://www.sleepycat.com to get the Berkeley DB library,
> compiled it and everything. I now have the libdb.a library and also header
> files in my include dir.
> 
> But still the configure fails. I dumped the library content through an
> 'objdump --syms libdb.a | grep dbopen', and while there is a dbopen symbol in
> the Linux library (not compiled, part of the distribution), I don't have any
> dbopen symbol in my own compiled library.
> 
> I thought trying to get the libdb1.a file would solve it, but I can't find
> anywhere to get it.
> 
> Does any of you have an idea on how to solve this ... I guess the last
> solution would be to try to see if I can remove the dbXxx calls from the code
> ... but it would be too much of a pain.
> 
> Thanks for all.
> 
> DERF
> 
> 
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