[pfx] Re: Incompatibility with LMDB 1.0

On 2026-08-15 1:43, Dan Mahoney via Postfix-users wrote:
>> On Aug 15, 2026, at 1:12 AM, Matthias Andree via Postfix-users 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 14.08.26 um 20:45 schrieb Wietse Venema via Postfix-users:
>>> Mel via Postfix-users:
>>>> On 2026-08-14 9:56, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users wrote:
>>>>> Gerard Seibert via Postfix-users:
>>>>>> I rarely post on this forum. I am presently using FreeBSD 14.4-p8. As
>>>>>> you probably know, a serious problem has occurred with several pots
>>>>>> due to the change to LMDB. Has a solution been found for that problem?
>>>>> Again? I thought this was fixed a few weeks ago.
>>>> It is fixed on FreeBSD.  The lmdb port was split into two versions so
>>>> ports could depend on whichever version is needed, and the Postfix ports
>>>> correctly depend on databases/lmdb0.
>>>>
>>>> We'd need more information from Gerard if they're still seeing an issue.
>>> Sorry, I mean this is confirmed as fixed in LMDB 1.0.1.
>>>
>>> There is no need for FreeBSD depending on need for LMDB 0.9.*.
>>>
>>> Just pretend that LMDB 1.0 never happened.
> 
> Still would have been nice if they had shipped an 0.9 compatible 
> mdb_dump util with the 1.x packages.
> 
> Would have also been nice if FreeBSD (and other OSes) had made these 
> tools co-installable.
> 
> Something something POLA.

That irked me too.  They can coexist.  The deps are almost entirely on 
liblmdb, which differ: 0.9.x = liblmdb.so.0, 1.x.x = liblmdb.so.1.

The collision is on the easily-renamed include/lmdb.h and bin/mdb_*

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