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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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Subject: Re: Cannot use any other BDB than builtin Berkeley DB
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On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, xuyifeng wrote:

> sigh,  why do FreeBSD have such stupid design?
> Regards,
> XuYifeng

  How exactly is this a FreeBSD problem?  There are three different DB
APIs.  The rather stupid DB_File perl module tries to use whatever API it
thinks you might want, and doesn't seem to look in the default locations
for any of the libraries.

Tom

Tom



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