Re: libdb

2003-04-05 Thread Nix
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jan Harkes mused: > In > the mean time sleepycat's db is a standard part of glibc libdb was removed from glibc in glibc-2.2, but because the glibc folks had added symbol versions to it (and as a result progra

Re: Re: libdb

2003-04-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "Jan" == Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> None. Although http://cr.yp.to/cdb/cdb.txt is Copyright 1996 Jan> D. J. Bernstein, I'm pretty sure that that copyright does Jan> not apply to an implementation based on reading the Jan> description. As long as you didn't

Re: libdb

2003-04-02 Thread Jan Harkes
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:46:31AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Er, now that rings a bell. Is everybody aware that much djb code > suffers from legal problems that potentially make it unmaintainable by > law? And it is not legal to distribute modified versions (usually, ... > Which of the

Re: libdb

2003-04-02 Thread Ivan Popov
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Er, now that rings a bell. Is everybody aware that much djb code > suffers from legal problems that potentially make it unmaintainable by > Which of the several djb (non-)licenses apply here? None. rwcdb is written by Jan from scratch. Cheers,

Re: libdb

2003-04-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "Greg" == Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Greg> It happens to be installed on my system and is required by Greg> sawfish/librep. "Sawfish: all the bloat of Emacs with none of the editor functionality." (Also my WM of choice. :-) Greg> So while a rwcdb implementation is

Re: libdb

2003-04-02 Thread Greg Troxel
> hmm, may be not all systems are as much populated (polluted? :-) > by different packages doing similar things?.. Well, there is that.But I look at it as there are a number of packages that meet some need. various other programs depend on various of these. a good packaging system sho

Re: libdb

2003-04-02 Thread Jan Harkes
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:21:04AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > NetBSD and FreeBSD have db 1.85 as part of the base system. > > There is also gdbm, which provides db compatibility and a similar > interface. It happens to be installed on my system and is required by > sawfish/librep. > > My system

Re: libdb

2003-04-02 Thread Daniele Palumbo
At 13.57 01/04/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:17:10PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Er ... has libdb disappeared from the most recent Coda CVS? I can't > log in and ldd (this is a Debian Linux system) says libdb is not linked. Well it became virtually impossible to maintai

Re: libdb

2003-04-02 Thread Ivan Popov
Hello Greg, On 2 Apr 2003, Greg Troxel wrote: > NetBSD and FreeBSD have db 1.85 as part of the base system. > ... gdbm ... required by ... > ... sleepycat db3 installed, required by ... > So while a rwcdb implementation is nice, using native db, gdbm, or db3 hmm, may be not all systems are as

Re: libdb

2003-04-02 Thread Greg Troxel
NetBSD and FreeBSD have db 1.85 as part of the base system. There is also gdbm, which provides db compatibility and a similar interface. It happens to be installed on my system and is required by sawfish/librep. My system also has sleepycat db3 installed, required by a lot of gnome stuff. So wh

Re: Re: libdb

2003-04-01 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "Jan" == Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> Well it became virtually impossible to maintain code based on Jan> libdb 1.85. Yeah, we've been there before, that's how I guessed. Thanks to Ivan who told me what I really needed to know: I have to reinstall the old version of p

Re: libdb

2003-04-01 Thread Jan Harkes
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:17:10PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Er ... has libdb disappeared from the most recent Coda CVS? I can't > log in and ldd (this is a Debian Linux system) says libdb is not linked. Well it became virtually impossible to maintain code based on libdb 1.85. Redhat 8.

Re: libdb

2003-04-01 Thread Ivan Popov
Hello Stephen, > Er ... has libdb disappeared from the most recent Coda CVS? I can't it has been replaced by rwcdb (Jan's from-scratch implementation of read-write interface to cdb). It feels so much better since then. > log in and ldd (this is a Debian Linux system) says libdb is not linked.

Re: libdb

2003-04-01 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Er ... has libdb disappeared from the most recent Coda CVS? I can't log in and ldd (this is a Debian Linux system) says libdb is not linked. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of TsukubaTennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573

Re: libdb

2001-03-20 Thread Jan Harkes
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 07:23:47PM -0600, john smith wrote: > i'm trying to build the latest coda SRPM, however when configure looks for > libdb, i get the following errors. i'm running redhat 7.0. i've installed > the db[1-3] packages, but i get this everytime > > checking location of liblwp..