Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 19:06:16 +0400 From: "Artem Koutchine" <matrix@ipform.ru> To: "xuyifeng" <xuyifeng@stocke.com>, "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Where is Berkley DB libdb? Message-ID: <00c301c02d4b$7d445040$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> References: <037201c02a10$e72e7a00$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> <20000929095555.A14858@dan.emsphone.com> <00dd01c02ac4$8280a740$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> <20000930142736.A13227@dan.emsphone.com> <006201c02d3a$ddd12c00$1801a8c0@xyf>
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So, lets get to it onces again.
Given:
db file created with 2.7.0 os Linux Slackware
FreeBSD 4.1.1-stable with 1.85 included in libc (damn it, get it out of
there!)
perl 5.005_03 on FreeBSD host
DB_File which comes with perl
Need to accomplish:
read that db file on FreeBSD host
Problems:
cannot read that db file on FreeBSD host
Solution:
install db 2.7.7 from ports
install DB_File 1.73 from CPAN (supposed to support db up to 3.x)
try to build DB_File linked agains the 2.7.7 version of DB:
1) perl Makefile.PL complains:
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -ldb
2) try a little hack and make a link from db2 to db
still 'Note (probably harmless): No library found for -ldb'
3) hell with it, open generate Makefile, add -ldb2 to LDFLAGS
make
make test
make install
try to open the - no luck , which means db lib is still taken from
libc
I do not understand how to make DB_File use db 2.7.7 instead of 1.85
built in in
libc.
Result:
somebody needs to do something about it
Artem
----- Original Message -----
From: "xuyifeng" <xuyifeng@stocke.com>
To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@emsphone.com>; "Artem Koutchine"
<matrix@ipform.ru>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: Where is Berkley DB libdb?
> Anyway, Berkeley DB shouldn't be included in libc, it is a stupid design,
> it causes problem, sucks. but I suspect it is difficult to simply split
dblib
> from libc, this may breaks many FreeBSD things.
>
> XuYifeng
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
> To: Artem Koutchine <matrix@ipform.ru>
> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 3:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Where is Berkley DB libdb?
>
>
> > In the last episode (Sep 30), Artem Koutchine said:
> > > From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@emsphone.com>
> > > > In the last episode (Sep 29), Artem Koutchine said:
> > > > > 3) How can i avoid all this mess and make every single executable
> > > > > use the version i have installed (2.7.7).
> > > >
> > > > If you really want to use a single version of DB across the board,
use
> > > > DB 3.1.17 (it's in ports).
> > >
> > > >From questions (1) and (2) the conclusion is that i cannot make my
system
> > > use any other version but the one compiled in libc (somebody compiled
> > > libdb into libc statically, sux).
> >
> > Sure you can. Berkeley DB versions 1, 2, and 3 all use completely
> > different function calls. V1 uses dbopen(), V2 uses db_open(), v3 uses
> > db_create(). They don't interfere with each other. libc provides DB
> > 1.85. If you want db2 or db3, you'll need to manually link in that
> > library and make sure you use either db_open() or db_create() to access
> > your datbase files.
> >
> > > > > All this is causing me a lot of trouble, because DB_File cannot
> > > > > access db files created on Linux (Mandrake 7.1 and some version of
> > > > > Slackware, i think it is latest). I have multi-os development
office,
> > > > > so, no os wars.
> > > >
> > > > I'd say the answer is "don't do that" :) Rebuild your DB file from
the
> > > > source file on each machine you use it on, or switch to a
client-server
> > > > databse like mysql.
> > >
> > > Mysql is used here and it's ok. DB is used for low level tasks. Could
> > > please explain why i shouldn't do that?
> >
> > I said that thinking that maybe DB files created on Linux might not
> > work on FreeBSD. After looking at the docs for DB3.1, it looks like
> > the database files should be portable across all systems DB3.1
> > supports.
> >
> > --
> > Dan Nelson
> > dnelson@emsphone.com
> >
> >
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