Re: libdb (w/ 1.85 compatibility)

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:55:46AM -0600, Jim Bjorksten wrote:
> This webpage:  http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/download.shtml
> doesn't mention libdb as a dependency.
>
> I'm trying to build gnumeric on a:
> > uname -a
> SunOS <hostname_not_applicable> 5.8 Generic_108528-16 sun4u sparc 
> SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine
>
> which doesn't have libdb installed on it already.
>
> I went to www.sleepycat.com and downloaded and built their latest 
> version, but (as shown below) it doesn't have a 1.85 compatibility mode.
>
> Can someone point me to the best place to get a gnumeric-compatible 
> libdb?  (a filename would be helpful if it's not obvious).
>
> Below is my configure error message:
> .
> .
> .
> checking for strdup... (cached) yes
> checking for utime.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking for getpagesize... (cached) yes
> checking for working mmap... (cached) yes
> checking for umode_t... no
> checking for dbopen... no
> checking for dbopen in -ldb... no
> checking for dbopen in -ldb1... no
> configure: error: Your db library is missing db 1.85 compatibility mode

Hmm.  Gnumeric does not depend on libdb.  That test must be coming
from the gnome default tests somehow.  What version of gnumeric is
this ?  My first guess would be that any version of libdb is ok, but
you need to compile it with the 1.85 compatibility enabled.  I have
not needed to look at that in a long time.