Re: Dealing with BDB Crash

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Friday, April 01, 2011 11:54 AM -0400 Dan Pritts <danno@internet2.edu> 
wrote:

> When I recently built openldap 2.4.23, I first tried using whatever 5.x
> version was the latest on oracle's site.
>
> I do not remember the specifics, but i had problems trying to build
> openldap with that version of bdb.
>
> I then noticed this in the openldap README file:
>
>     SLAPD:
>         BDB and HDB backends require Oracle Berkeley DB 4.4, 4.5,
>         4.6, 4.7, or 4.8.  It is highly recommended to apply the
>         patches from Oracle for a given release.
>
> I assumed that meant 5.x wasn't supported, built 4.8.latest, and went on
> with life.
>
> Anyway, if 5.x IS supported it would be great to update that README file
> for the next openldap release.

It was, when 5.x configure support was added in 2.4.24+.  2.4.23 works fine 
with BDB 5.x, but you have to patch configure to detect it properly.

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
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