Re: SUMMARY: Problems with slapd and bdb on IRIX 6.5.25

[Mark Andrews <mandrews4@sympatico.ca>]

dbroady@lexmark.com wrote:

> Mark,
>
> The reason BDB-4.2.52 doesn't work for you is that on IRIX, it detects that
> O_DIRECT is a valid flag, but it doesn't follow the rules that Irix makes
> when using that flag (ie.  buffer-alignment).  The way to overcome this is
> to do the following:
>
> env   db_cv_open_o_direct=no   ../dist/configure [args]
>
> This will force it to not use the O_DIRECT flag (for DB-4.2.52).  This
> should then allow the tests to run successfully.  This information was
> given to me directly from support@sleepycat.com.
>  
Thank you Darin. Works perfectly :-)