Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Problems compiling with libdb, again.

[Hudson R. <hud...@so...>]

Hi Rildo,

> I found that trying to compile TC have some problems, at least
> in my Slackware 8.0. Before patching it too much, I would ask
> you (the other developers) what do you think if we include
> db-1.85 source in our source tree, so the troubles with
> configuration go away forever?

In my point of view, include db-1.85 sources in source tree isn't a good idea so the libdb sources have a 272,892kb. The most dammaged is the dial-up concection user, like me and others. :(

For example: SourceNavigator(1), have a 15MB(in sources!), however, is included in your source tree the sources of libdb, grep, itcl, tcl8.1, tk8.1 and tix. If I remove this packages and compact again, the size of source navigator's package is 7MB. Again, the most dammaged is the dial-up connection user. :(
 
> I choose version 1.85 because it is the only free version of this
> library, and anyway we don't support the added features of the
> other more recent releases of libdb.
> This way, our configuration scripts become much more easy to maintain
> and there will be no issues related to libdb anymore.
> 
> What do you think?

I don't think a good idea, so the user couldn't configure the libdb version. The current way is very good for me:

./configure --with-libdb=2 (To version 2 of libdb)
./configure --with-libdb=3 (To version 3 of libdb)
./configure --with-libdb=4 (To version 4 of libdb)
 
Regards,
Hudson

1) SourceNavigator.
   http://sources.redhat.com/sourcenav