Re: Berkeley DB backend - exact version check

[Jan Synacek <jsynacek@redhat.com>]

On 10/16/2013 02:24 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
> Jan Synacek wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> slapd checks the exact version of BDB at runtime and fails if it doesn't equal
>> to the version that it's been linked against. Is there a reason for such precise
>> check? Shouldn't the major and minor version numbers be enough?
>>
>> The code seems to have been there for a while, so I'm sorry if such question has
>> been asked before. I couldn't find any answers.
> 
> No, our previous experience has been that just the major and minor version
> numbers are not enough. APIs changed quite a bit between the earliest versions
> of a release and later versions. (E.g., 4.1.1 vs 4.1.25, etc.) Check the
> DB_VERSION ifdefs in the code and you'll see.
> 

Well, so libdb doesn't respect the versioning scheme that the other libraries do...

Thanks for the response, Howard!

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Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, Red Hat