Re: release notes: db3 requirement

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 12:54, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 16:32, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:16:00AM -0600, John Fleck wrote:
> > > Malcolm (and therefore I) have confusion about the db3 requirement. Can
> > > someone explain what specifically is required to build GNOME2? Bonus
> > > points for being able to explain what it's called and how it's packaged
> > > by the various distributions.
> > 
> > My confusion is mostly about what is the difference between the db3 and
> > db3x packages on Red Hat 7 distributions. I *believe* that db3 and
> 
> I think these packages are related to Evolution.  Evolution requires a
> specific version of db3 for compatibility reasons.  

Nope, the db 3.1.17 that is required by evolution is built during the
evolution build process and statically linked in.  The db3x package is a
compatibility package for versions of db3 which we shipped in earlier
releases.

Cheers,

Jeremy