Re: Hint for installing Berkeley DB 5.3.28

On Sunday, June 15th, 2025 at 16:50, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 6/15/25 9:38 AM, Alec Bloss ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> 
> > Since this software package is no longer in the book and is listed as deprecated, but
> > some applications may still need it, I've written instructions on how to build
> > Berkely DB for LFS as it's no longer entirely straightforward and I just spent a few
> > hours figuring it out myself. The instructions in BLFS 12.0 don't work anymore
> > either, so I think this hint is necessary for those who need BDB.
> > 
> > I've attached it as a txt file - if that doesn't come through, please reply and let
> > me know. Released as public domain.
> 
> 
> I've addrd the file to the hints repository:
> 
> https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/Berkeley_DB_procedure.txt

Questions on the commands in that hint, for which many thanks, Alec.

In the 12.0 BLFS, the Book merely configured the vanilla tarball with

../dist/configure --prefix=/usr      \
                  --enable-compat185 \
                  --enable-dbm       \
                  --disable-static   \
                  --enable-cxx

whereas the hint is now much more explicit, in terms of
many --disable options, except for --disable-static, vis:

../dist/configure --prefix=/usr \
  --enable-compat185            \
  --enable-dbm                  \
  --enable-cxx                  \
  --disable-option-checking     \
  --disable-silent-rules        \
  --disable-maintainer-mode     \ 
  --disable-dependency-tracking \
  --disable-java                \
  --disable-sql                 \
  --disable-stl                 \
  --with-mutex=POSIX/pthreads/library


If one doesn't have those in the configure, have the package's
default options been changed so that those options would now be 
enabled by default?

Similarly, if one added --disable-static to the configure, is
that no longer respected, or seen to cause problems?

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