BerkeleyDB 6 symbol versioning and associated problems

Honza Horak hhorak at redhat.com
Fri May 9 09:49:05 UTC 2014


On 05/07/2014 10:21 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> said:
>> I don't know if I have a good suggestion here, none of the alternatives
>> sound appealing.
>
> Is there a compelling reason to upgrade to BDB-6 (other than 6 > 5)?
> The license change really seems to be a PITA, since it is incompatible
> with the licenses of software already using BDB-5.

We should provide some libdb officially supported by upstream, which 
won't be the case for libdb-5 forever. Also there may come some projects 
in the future that will require libdb-6 for some of its features. So, 
staying only with libdb-5 does not seem to be a solution for me.

Honza


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