On 05/21/2010 01:33 AM, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:29:49PM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
> Is this the default Berkeley-DB version for your system platform?

No

> If
> not, you should generally avoid the temptation to use a non-default
> Berkeley-DB.

I maintain some packages for Gentoo Linux.  This came up while testing
application compatibility with Berkeley DB 5.0.

>> --- a/src/util/dict_db.c
>> +++ b/src/util/dict_db.c
>> -#if (DB_VERSION_MAJOR == 4 && DB_VERSION_MINOR > 0)
>> +#if (DB_VERSION_MAJOR == 5) || (DB_VERSION_MAJOR == 4 && DB_VERSION_MINOR > 
>> 0)
> 
> Have you read the release-notes? What are the incompatibilities with 4.x
> (if any)?

I've seen nothing major so far.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/installation/changelog_5_0.html
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/installation/upgrade_11gr2_toc.html

-- 
Eray

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