On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > What's the motivation for this? -- justin
just to name a few... - the configure stuff will never be smart enough, something will break, there is no way to disable it. this is already eating up developer time, imagine what it will do to users. - might have another module loaded in httpd or apr based program already linked against a different version of db, gdbm, etc. BOOM. similar to the expat nightmare we had with 1.3. or the php vs. perl fiasco with different mysql libraries. - building an apr based program that doesn't use any dbm stuff; no need for all the extra baggage - httpd/apr is built on a machine with libgdbm.so or libdb.so, try running the program on another box same arch, no libgdbm.so or libdb.so
