Re: BDB module, Berkeley-DB version support

[<Joe...@t-...>]

Hi,

Sky Hester wrote:
>I’m trying to get up and running with the BDB module, but I’m having trouble.
>Specifically, I’m stuck at the stage of compiling Berkeley-DB <=4.8 on OSX, which appears to be the latest supported release.

>Is the information on this page still valid?
> https://clisp.sourceforge.io/impnotes/berkeley-db.html
I fear not. It mentions 4.8 -- yours specifically -- as latest supported version, however this module's history:

https://gitlab.com/gnu-clisp/clisp/commits/master/modules/berkeley-db

... exhibits "update berkeley-db to 5.1" in 2012:
https://gitlab.com/gnu-clisp/clisp/commit/cd73e9634b729d749b289952a8c4d72224eb184c 

Perhaps that broke compatibility with 4.8 or OSX? It should not, since the commit includes in src/NEWS:
 * Module berkeley-db now supports Berkeley-DB 5.1.
  (Older versions are, of course, still supported).
  See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/berkeley-db.html> for details.

> https://clisp.sourceforge.io/impnotes/berkeley-db.html
That page cannot include the above change, because, as its parent
https://clisp.sourceforge.io/impnotes/index.html
says, it documents clisp 2.49 from 2010 and has not been regenerated/updated yet.

Can you sort of revert that 2012 commit and see if that helps?

>I see recent commits to dev sources in the bdb module directory, but
>it’s not obvious to me whether Berkeley-DB >4.8 is supported.
Which ones? I only saw that 2012 change as specific to Berkeley DB. Others are
About general changes, e.g. configure, gnulib or module initialization.

Regards,
	Jörg