Le Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 09:52:17AM -0500, Kermit Tensmeyer écrivait: > /lib/libdb.so. => libdb-2.0.7.so > /usr/lib/libdb.so => libdb-2.0.7 > /usr/lib/libdb2.so => libdb2.so.2.4.14
/lib/libdb.so.2 -> libdb1-2.1.1.so /lib/libdb.so.3 -> libdb-2.1.1.so /lib/libdb1.so.2 -> libdb1-2.1.1.so /usr/lib/libdb.so -> /lib/libdb.so.3 /usr/lib/libdb.so.1 -> libdb.so.1.85.4 /usr/lib/libdb1.so -> /lib/libdb1.so.2 /usr/lib/libdb2.so -> libdb2.so.2.4.14 /usr/lib/libdb2.so.2 -> libdb2.so.2.4.14 It seems that you are not running the latest potato ... > didn't find it /lib but no-matter... /lib/libdb-2.1.1.so > I'm building perl5.005.03 and perl5.005.057, for use with mod-perl > 1.20 and sybase. perl-5.005_5.005.03 is in Incoming ! > As debian was installed a number of programs are installed which have > a dependency on the 1.85 library. When I replace the symbolic link > /lib/libdb.2.so => libdb.2.7.5, a number of programs broke You should never do that ! Of course they'll break, you change the library without recompiling the programs, that will never work ! > perl expects to find -ldb and /usr/include/db.h to have the same > version number and that version number > 2.4.6. Yes and that's what it does find on my system. But the Configure script is not perfect though. Look at the perl-5.005_5.005.03-1.diff.gz file in Incoming to see what has been changed in the Configure script. > How can I provide that functionality (have -ldb of release 2.7.5) > without breaking the current system which requires -ldb be 1.8.5? glibc 2.1 provides libdb 2.4.14 HTH, -- Hertzog Raphaël >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/