How do I get Berkeley DB with 1.85 compatibility mode?

Jeff91 · 01-09-2010, 02:20 PM

I am trying to install gnome-bin 1.4.2 from source but it is telling be I need my Berkeley DB to have 1.85 compatibility mode - how do I do this? I've tried both the libdb4.2-dev package (which give the error below) and the libdb1-dev package (which tells me I am missing DB support all together).

Code:

checking for dbopen... no
checking for dbopen in -ldb... no
checking for dbopen in -ldb1... no
checking for __db185_open in -ldb-3... no
checking for __db185_open in -ldb-4... no
configure: error: Your db library is missing db 1.85 compatibility mode

How do I get Berkeley 1.85 compatibility mode on my system?

Thanks,
~Jeff

knudfl · 01-10-2010, 01:02 AM

Well, in fact you already know this .. we discussed it before ..

You can either do : apt-get build-dep gnome-bin
on your Debian system .. or follow your own link
from your above post # 1 ( to look at the source page )
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gnome-bin
> > [ Source: gnome-libs ] → →
http://packages.debian.org/source/lenny/gnome-libs
.. to see a full dependency list ..
.. and the "db" dependency clearly says
"" libdb-dev (>= 4.6.19-1) ""

On debian Lenny the package name is : libdb4.6-dev ,
providing version 4.6.21-11

Then no more "db 1.85 compatibility mode" issue.
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Jeff91 · 01-10-2010, 02:01 AM

Haha, solid suggestion. I really need to learn to RTM more often, got it going now. Also for any who can I ended up installing it from source and I followed the instructions here for installing this non-standard source.

EDIT: After installing the source from the package you (and I) linked to above, I am still getting the same DB error when running ./configure

Other suggestions?

~Jeff

knudfl · 01-10-2010, 03:52 AM

Quote:

I followed the instructions here for installing this non-standard source.

.. which seems to be version 4.3 ? ?

Please have a look into the db4.6_4.6.21 source :
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libdb4.6
> [db4.6_4.6.21-11.diff.gz]
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool....21-11.diff.gz

cat -n db4.6_4.6.21-11.diff | grep -A10 CONFIGURE
.. shows ..

Code:

   230  +                       --enable-cxx \
   231  +                       --enable-compat185 \
   232  +                       --enable-rpc \
   233  +                       --enable-tcl \
   
   235  +                       --enable-test

May be use '4.6.21' and at least use the option " --enable-compat185 " ..
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Jeff91 · 01-10-2010, 02:51 PM

Truly Odd. For some off reason installing 4.6 from source doesn't fix the issue however installing from the .deb packages resolves the issue. I wonder why that is.

At any rate it is working now

~Jeff