From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Kettenis To: drepper@cygnus.com Cc: libc-hacker@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: DB 2.7.x is not binary compatible with DB 2.4.x Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 08:08:00 -0000 Message-id: <199907211508.RAA22132@landau.wins.uva.nl> References: <199907211010.MAA21097@landau.wins.uva.nl> X-SW-Source: 1999-07/msg00073.html From: Ulrich Drepper Date: 21 Jul 1999 05:31:23 -0700 Mark Kettenis writes: > This means that we should either bump the libdb soname, or use > versioning to create functions that map the old flags onto the new > ones. None of this. First, you are really stupid installing this libc version. The warning in configure isn't there for fun. It's not only about the locale suff, other changes (including the db stuff) is included. Sorry, but I want to make sure that the development version keeps working on the Hurd. If I don't do this regularly it becomes very hard to track down problems when things break. The easiest way to make sure that the core servers keep working is actually installing libc. Of course this isn't a "production" system and of course I have made a backup first. Please understand that I'm not whining that things are broken. I just wanted to make sure that you're aware of the problems with DB. Second, db/db2 will be removed from glibc soon. Then you can do whatever you want. I for myself will probably stay with 2.4. Just curious, but what's the reason for dropping db/db2? Mark