On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 09:02:49PM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote: > Hello again, > > I attempted to build libdb4.0, but I'm stuck due to a weird cyclic > dependency: apt-get build-dep libdb4.0 want automake-1.4 which requires > autoconf which depends on perl which in turn depends on libdb4.0. > > If despite this, anyone successfully built libdb4.0, could it be put up > on alpha.gnu.org? Lots of basic packages like man or mc need it.
The problem is that current perl depends on libdb4.0 which appears to be not uploaded anywhere. There is one at http://mactest98.ruk.cuni.cz/~hramrach/packages But unless there is libdb4.0 at least on alpha the dependecy problem is still there. And the db4.0 source package still cannot be build with the new libc that has no db1 support. The patch is trivial and there is a long bug discussion in the BTS bug 160129 already. -- Michal Suchanek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

