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Re: Installing Berkeley DB 3.2.9
- To: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Subject: Re: Installing Berkeley DB 3.2.9
- From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:28:12 -0400
- CC: shabbir at talib dot com, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <20010712163651.G554@dothill.com>
Jason Tishler wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:10:48PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>> BerkeleyDB-3.x has not yet been ported to cygwin -- it requires certain
>> changes in order to compile. Use
>> http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/db-2.7.7/
>> until somebody ports 3.x.
>
>
> Just a FYI, but Berkeley DB 3.2.9 does build OOTB under Cygwin. From
> the Berkeley DB 3.2.9 Change Log:
>
> http://www.sleepycat.com/update/3.2.9/if.3.2.9.html
>
> we have:
>
> Berkeley DB now works with the Cygwin tools. You need at least DLL
> version 1.1.4. Configure and build as you would on a Unix system. Only
> static library builds are supported, no shared library support is
> included. [#2913]
>
> I also verified this empirically.
Excelent. This means that the only changes to db-3.2.9 that would be
necessary are those for enabling dll-build. Cool.
>
> Now, if I could just get rpm 4.0.2 to build with it. Sigh...
Hmm. Well that's a bummer.
--Chuck
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