Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 03:35:05 -0400 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> To: Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com> Cc: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>, dev@apr.apache.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [MAINTAINER] devel/apr-gdbm-db42: apr-util 1.3.7 breaks dbd support Message-ID: <4A2E10A9.6090408@p6m7g8.com> In-Reply-To: <1244532560.25532.103.camel@shrek.rexursive.com> References: <200906090316.n593GCYQ075516@frieza.p6m7g8.net> <1244520824.25532.88.camel@shrek.rexursive.com> <4A2DF79D.709@rowe-clan.net> <4A2E001E.4020806@p6m7g8.com> <1244531713.25532.95.camel@shrek.rexursive.com> <4A2E0CB8.1090701@p6m7g8.com> <1244532560.25532.103.camel@shrek.rexursive.com>
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Bojan Smojver wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 03:18 -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: >> libsvn_fs_base is compiled if BDB support is detected. > > I think it calls Berkeley DB API directly, not via APU. Hence, the fact > that -ldb was part of apu-1-config --libs, was just a historical > accident. > > If a program calls apr_dbm*(), APU will load relevant support as DSO, so > user doesn't need to link directly to the actual underlying DB library. > If that particular DB type is not supported (i.e. not compiled in), > error will be returned. That's my understanding. > > PS. We do have a workaround for ldap along these lines, where we report > ldap in --libs, unless --avoid-ldap is passed to the config script. > Maybe we should do this here, to avoid breaking compilation > compatibility. Opinions? > I think you have to given the versioning rules. And for gdbm too et al too. Its certainly not ABI/API compatible. Speaking of which why wasn't this only in 1.4.x/trunk(2.x) ? Excellent, Bojan, now I've got the history and why, and understand whats happened. I don't think teaching subversion about this fact will be sufficient -- There are over 56 apps in the freebsd ports tree with over 900 depends that this breaks as is, though most of which indirectly depend on subversion.
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