[sr-dev] modules/db_berkeley fails to compile with libdb4.5-dev or below

[marius zbihlei]

Jon Bonilla wrote:
> El Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:24:59 +0300
> marius zbihlei <marius.zbihlei at 1and1.ro> escribió:
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>> Hello
>>
>> Never occurred to look thru the bug tracker. I have made a patch that 
>> based on DB_VERSION_MAJOR and DB_VERSION_MINOR decides between c_close() 
>> and the new API close(). Also the same discussion for the other c_ 
>> function like c_get().
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>> Have a look at commit 9d8d30c and tell if you spot something weird. I 
>> have tested with libdb4.5(c_close) and libdb4.6(close) and now it 
>> compiles without problems
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marius
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> Hi Marius
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> I'll test it ASAP. I've been sick and not much time for playing with sr. I
> created the ticket time ago but did not update it because the berkeley db
> version was so old that it was not worthy to take care of that. In my
> scenarios, where debian is used, it fails to compile in etch which is a really
> outdated version of debian.
>   

Hello Jon,

First of all, I hope you get well soon. The problem is that I have a 
dependency on libdb4.5 on a lenny system. The fix is fairly simple so I 
think this approach works best.

Cheers
Marius
> There are more plugins that do not compile due to specific versioning.
> Sometimes because the lib is too old (ej berkeley module not compiling in etch)
> and sometimes because of new versions (ej purple module not compiling in
> squeeze).
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> What I do not know is what to consider a bug. Problems with old versions (how
> old?), problems with newer versions (how recent?) or none of them.
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> cheers,
> Jon
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