RE: configure: error: Berkeley DB version mismatch

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Thursday, September 16, 2004 2:40 PM +0800 "Tay, Gary" 
<Gary_Tay@platts.com> wrote:

> 1) As u may or may NOT be aware, a lot of Solaris8 machines do not have
> GNU's binutils package (www.sunfreeware.com) installed BY DEFAULT, and
> therefore do not have GNU's ld, I don't have it on my Solaris8 box,
> Cameron seems to have it as he has /usr/local/bin/make.

Yeah, we @ Stanford build a ton of software, and distribute it to all of 
our systems via a shared file system called AFS.

> However I can't find binutils package for Solaris9, and I could not find
> Solaris9 version of /usr/local/bin/ld on my Solaris9 box, Where is your
> Solaris9 GNU version of ld come from? Did u use the Solaris8 version of
> binutils package for Solaris9?

We are using:

binutils-2.13.2.1

that was originally built on Solaris 2.6.

(Since Solaris tends to be backwards compatible). ;)

--Quanah

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