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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: bin/21659: Berkeley db library is statically compiled into libc, which make use of newer BDB very difficult, if possible at all
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The following reply was made to PR bin/21659; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: matrix@ipform.ru
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: bin/21659: Berkeley db library is statically compiled into libc, which make use of newer BDB very difficult, if possible at all
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:50:11 -0400 (EDT)

 <<On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 03:07:02 -0700 (PDT), matrix@ipform.ru said:
 
 > Stop statically linking libdb into libc. Make a separate libdb
 > library, so user can easily upgrade berkeley db library when newer
 > releases are available.
 
 Impractical.
 
 Several important libc functions depend on having databases
 available.  Something which exports an ndbm-compatible interface is
 required by SUSv3/POSIX.1-200x.  The on-disk file formats are in any
 case incompatible between db 1.x and db y.x for all y > 1.
 
 -GAWollman
 
 


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