On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, N1OFZ wrote: > > Are GM and libDB are Darwinports versions, so they are in > > "/opt/local/" ?? > > They should be. All port packages should be installed in /opt/local. But > whoever built the port for bdb decided that rather than install in > /opt/local/lib they install them in /opt/local/lib/db4x.
The problem with the Berkeley DB library as distributed by Sleepcat Software is that mixing matching between different versions will often cause segfaults in your application. If a program was compiled against one version's headers but linked to a different version's library, you can get a segfault. I assume the same could happen if you had it dynamically linked to libdb.so of one version and then replaced libdb.so with a different version and ran the program. That's most likely why they chose to put each version in its own directory. This makes it difficult to distribute either source code or a binary that dynamically links to their library. If the library is distributed along with the application then it's not such a big problem. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
