Build perl against libdb rather than db4?

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 03/21/2012 10:27 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
> I think Fedora's perl (and the rest of the distribution for that matter)
> should be built against libdb (db5) rather than db4, at least in
> Rawhide, so as to avoid problems like:
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/768846
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/712943
> 
> Changed the BR: of db4-devel to libdb-devel is sufficient to achieve
> this, and the resulting perl does pass its test suite.
> 
I was told by libdb maintainer that db4 will be replaced by libdb.
Rebuild of all dependencies or everything will be needed, so those bugs
shouldn't occurred. I guess he will drive the whole change and rebuild.

> Anybody else have any opinion on this?
> 
> Marcela, is RHEL-7 built consistently against the same libdb version or
> is this mixing of versions going to be a problem throughout its entire
> lifecycle?
> 
> Paul.

I'm not allowed to discuss it on public list.

Marcela