Re: Fwd: Re: DB_LOG_AUTOREMOVE: how does it work?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> --On Saturday, March 19, 2005 1:30 PM -0800 "Kurt D. Zeilenga" 
> <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote:
>
> > Maybe we can commit the back-bdb patch behind an ifdef,
> > and place the BerkeleyBDB patch in build/berkeleydb42.patch?
>
>
> Hm... does having the 3rd patch in place generate a different version 
> string for BDB?  If someone builds OpenLDAP with the OL piece of the 
> patch, but not the BDB piece of the patch, it simply won't work.  We'd 
> definitely need a way to test for BDB being a patched version.

Currently it doesn't, but I guess we can patch the version macros as 
well. Yes, we definitely need a way to detect the patch, and probably a 
runtime check to abort the startup if the wrong library somehow gets 
attached...

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