Tobias,

Twas brillig at 08:28:53 11.04.2012 UTC+02 when t...@frost.de did gyre and 
gimble:

 TF> I'm still waiting for the answer from upstream, but if you are
 TF> right (and I fear you are) changing the behaviour would break other
 TF> applications, and I do not believe that this would be wise.

At least mutt re-creates TC database on demand, that's what I checked.

 TF> Moreless we would need an migration path, like patching tokyocabinet to
 TF> automatically detect endianess and act accordingly (whatever this is;
 TF> for sure this is not a trivial thing )

Not a trivial change, indeed.

 TF> So lets wait for an answer from upstream before looking into detailed
 TF> options, but currently I cannot rule out to tag this "won't fix" or at
 TF> least "help-needed".  

Upstream does not care about TokyoCabinet anymore, it's KyotoCabinet
nowadays. Sad, but true.

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