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Date:      Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:37:11 +0400
From:      "Artem Koutchine" <matrix@ipform.ru>
To:        "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Where is Berkley DB libdb?
Message-ID:  <00dd01c02ac4$8280a740$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru>
References:  <037201c02a10$e72e7a00$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> <20000929095555.A14858@dan.emsphone.com>

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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).


> > 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?





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