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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:28:12 -0400
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
CC: shabbir AT talib DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Installing Berkeley DB 3.2.9
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Jason Tishler wrote:

> Chuck,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:10:48PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
>> BerkeleyDB-3.x has not yet been ported to cygwin -- it requires certain
>> changes in order to compile.  Use
>> http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/db-2.7.7/
>> until somebody ports 3.x.
> 
> 
> Just a FYI, but Berkeley DB 3.2.9 does build OOTB under Cygwin.  From
> the Berkeley DB 3.2.9 Change Log:
> 
>     http://www.sleepycat.com/update/3.2.9/if.3.2.9.html
> 
> we have:
> 
>     Berkeley DB now works with the Cygwin tools. You need at least DLL
>     version 1.1.4. Configure and build as you would on a Unix system. Only
>     static library builds are supported, no shared library support is
>     included. [#2913]
> 
> I also verified this empirically.

Excelent.  This means that the only changes to db-3.2.9 that would be 
necessary are those for enabling dll-build.  Cool.

> 
> Now, if I could just get rpm 4.0.2 to build with it.  Sigh...

Hmm.  Well that's a bummer.

--Chuck


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