Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/21/05:21:41
--- Phil Smith <aphilsmith AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> The db-2.7.7-4 Berkeley DB was provided in Cygwin 1.3.11-3 but removed
> from
> 1.3.12.
That was a packaging error, which conflicted with the existing (and
working) berkeley db distribution.
> This is unfortunate, considering that search.h, hsearch() and related
> APIs
> are unavailable via the db-2.7.7.4 package or the developer package...
The berkeley db does not provide search.h. That is an optional extention
of the libc which is distributed with the system:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/search.h.html
Perhaps if you install "db2", "libdb2", & "libdb2-devel", you might have
better luck? Then, as the API docs included in those packages explain, if
you want to access hsearch(), you should include <db.h>.
> Any suggestions, short of getting it from the cygwin-1.3.12-2-src
> package ?
Yes, before asking a question like this, take the time to research it! A
search on google for hsearch() returned the following as the fifth result:
http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/api_c/hsearch.html
A "clued-in" person would see that what he/she needed was db.h. Which
packages contains db.h? Well that person would then search the packages
at:
http://cygwin.com/packages/
He/She would then, knowing that it is a header of the berkeley db, see
that the package he/she would need is:
libdb2-devel The Sleepycat Berkeley DB Library v2 - devel
See, that wasn't so difficult, was it?
> Thanks
You're welcome!
Cheers,
Nicholas
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