| Subject: | Patch for the README (FreeBSD information |
I had to diddle around a bit in order to get BerkeleyDB to install
correctly on FreeBSD, so I thought I'd send you some notes I made which
might help people in the future.
Looking at the RT queue, this may help resolve #13348.
Regards,
David
| Subject: | README.BDB.patch |
--- README.orig Thu Feb 16 12:07:59 2006
+++ README Thu Feb 16 12:23:10 2006
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@
the Solaris Notes or HP-UX Notes sections below.
If you are running Linux please read the Linux Notes section
before proceeding.
+ If you are running FreeBSD read the FreeBSD Notes section
+ below.
Step 2 : Edit the file config.in to suit you local installation.
Instructions are given in the file.
@@ -563,6 +565,29 @@
3: Build and install the Berkeley DB distribution as usual.
+FreeBSD Notes
+-------------
+
+On FreeBSD 4.x through 6.x, the default db.h is for version 1. The
+build will fail with an error similar to:
+
+BerkeleyDB.xs:74: #error db.h is from Berkeley DB 1.x - need at least Berkeley DB 2.6.4
+
+Later versions of Berkeley DB are usually installed from ports.
+The available versions can be found by running a find(1) command:
+
+ % find /usr/local/include -name 'db.h'
+ /usr/local/include/db3/db.h
+ /usr/local/include/db4/db.h
+ /usr/local/include/db41/db.h
+ /usr/local/include/db42/db.h
+ /usr/local/include/db43/db.h
+
+The desired version of the library must be specified on the command line or
+via the config.in file. Make sure both values point to the same version:
+
+ INCLUDE = /usr/local/include/db43
+ LIB = /usr/local/lib/db43
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