RE: HEADS UP: BerkeleyDB 4.2, libldif, etc.

["Howard Chu" <hyc@symas.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Kurt D. Zeilenga
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 2:30 PM
> To: openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: HEADS UP: BerkeleyDB 4.2, libldif, etc.
>
>
> I have just committed to significant changes.  First,
> I've committed code to detect and use Berkeley DB 4.2.
> For back-bdb, Berkeley DB 4.2 is REQUIRED.  Given
> all the problems with DB 4.1, forcing an upgrade for
> HEAD and OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_2 makes sense (IMO).
> Since we'll being going through a third 2.2 beta,
> we should have enough time to shake 2.2 out.

I was testing a preliminary 4.2 release (4.2.41) against HEAD/2.2 a couple
weeks ago and it worked without any issues. I haven't downloaded the current
4.2 release yet though. Looks like there are problems with it in OpenLDAP
2.1, at least, but I haven't seen that myself yet.

> If your not ready for DB 4.2, you can always force
> the compat test to true via your environment.
>
> Also, LDIF routines have been moved to -llutil.  -lldif
> is dead.  May soon do same to -lavl and -llunicode.

It would probably be nice to fix -llunicode's word-size dependencies first
huh?

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