On 2010-03-17 10:27:45 -0500, Will Rutherdale (rutherw) wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter J. Holzer [mailto:[email protected]] > > On 2010-03-16 17:14:32 -0500, Will Rutherdale (rutherw) wrote: > > > Also, the DBD-SQLite package has a funny description: > > > "Self-contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver". This doesn't mean that > > > DBD-SQLite re-implements all of SQLite, does it? > > > > No. It doesn't reimplement it, it just bundles it. > > > > > Or does it just mean that it is the Driver for > > > the "Self-contained RDBMS" of SQLite? > > > > No. The drivers includes an SQLite version and will ignore any other > > version which may already be installed on the system. > > > Interesting. In embedded systems there is often a lot of fighting over > flash space, and if people are using SQLite then it has already been > installed somewhere. > > Is there any way to get the driver to use the existing SQLite and to > avoid the cost of installing the extra one that comes with DBD-SQLite?
Almost certainly yes.
In fact on Debian, libdbd-sqlite3-perl doesn't contain another copy of
libsqlite3.so but reuses the lib from libsqlite3-0. If it isn't obvious
how to do that from DBD::SQLite you may want to have a look at the
Debian package.
hp
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