Subject: Re: problems with choosing a Berkeley DB
To: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/11/2005 09:24:45
Mark Davies wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 January 2005 18:12, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
>> I'm not sure why it's working in this case, but not
>>in other cases that have been reported to me. I'll just hope that it
>>continues to work, and perhaps we'll figure out the real reason in the
>>future.
>
> I think that the bits of kdevelop-base that actually use db3 happen to not
> pull in those things that use db4.
In that case, there is absolutely no problem with directly including
db3/buildlink3.mk in the kdevelop-base Makefile, although this fact
should be noted in a prominent comment in the Makefile.
Cheers,
-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>