On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:49 -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to convince the maintainers of the evolution-data-server > FreeBSD port (<http://freshports.org/databases/evolution-data-server>) > to build the software against the db4-version installed by the separate > port of SleepyCat's db4 (<http://freshports.org/databases/db43>). > > I'm using the thus built evolution (against db-4.3.29) to type this > message, but they remain hesitant, because of the past problems they > encountered trying to build evolution using the already installed db3 > instead of the version then-bundled with evolution. > > I'm guessing, you used to have modified version of db3, which allowed it > to work, where the "standard" version did not. Is there anything like > that in the db4.1 version bundled with e-d-s 1.4.2.1, or can we safely > use any reasonably recent version of db4? > > Moreover, perhaps, you can be convinced to stop the bundling of db4 > completely and turn it into just another pre-requisite? http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319393 contains a patch we've been using in the DBus port of EDS to use a dynamic libdb. Instead of simply hacking away at the makefiles it adds an option, so is suitable for integration. EDS comes with a copy of libdb 4.1. It was copied as back in the early days of Evolution some people had db3, and some had db4, but the file format changed. The solution to this was to add migration logic from db3 to db4 in EDS, and to enforce EDS linking to db4.1 by embedding the source. Recently the DB file format hasn't changed, so the problem is moot. I've been running EDS with a dynamically linked libdb 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 without any problems, on both Intel and ARM. I really would like this patch to be merged into EDS for G2.16, if only for the memory reduction: libdb is statically linked into both the bdb addressbook backend and libedataserver, at a cost of 600K each time. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: ross burtonini com jabber: ross burtonini com www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
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