Re: openldap on Linux/alpha (ITS#295)

[jeffgus@zimage.com]

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> 
> >db_appinit(3) ERRORS
> >EINVAL:	The DB_THREAD flag was specified and spinlocks are not implemented for this architecture.
> >
> >No spinlocks under Linux/alpha?
> 
> Looks like BerkeleyDB does not support GCC spinlocks under
> Linux/alpha (or other non-x86 architectures).
> 
> Unless you want to write a little assembler code (or modify ldbm.c
> to support non-DB_THREAD BerkeleyDB2 use), you'll have to use
> GDBM (--with-ldbm-api=gdbm).

	Okay... that works.  I haven't tried to populate anything yet, but
the daemon is running now.  How much is my performance going to be
affected?

			...Jeff