Re: Berkeley DB 4

[Pierangelo Masarati <masarati@aero.polimi.it>]

> "Howard Chu" writes:
> > There is no reason. The HEAD and REL_ENG streams have already been patched
> > for BDB 4 support. It works fine when those ifdef's are fixed.
> 
> > > unusable, perhaps unintentionally.  Any known reason why
> > > db >= 4 shouldn't work in openldap?
> 
> I tweaked the ifdefs, compile completed, and openldap built.
> The test suite completed happily (which seems to mostly
> test ldbm capability anyway).

You're talking about two different things: if berkeley db api is detected
by configure, or explicitly enforced, then back-ldbm will use db-3/4 as
underlying database thru ldbm wrapping.  back-bdb is an experimental
backend that directly uses berkeley's api (to exploit transactions).

Pierangelo.