Berkeley DB JDBC Build on Linux/ARM Errors?

Question

Trying to build a version of Berkeley DB 5.3.15 with dbsql and jdnc on a Linux/Arm device.
From the build_unix directory issued the following configure command:
../dist/configure enable-sql  enable-jdbc
then
make
The build fails while trying to compile sqlite_jni.c. The last lines of the build look as follows:
native/sqlite_jni.c: In function 'Java_SQLite_Database__1exec__Ljava_lang_String_2LSQLite_Callback_2_3Ljava_lang_String_2':
native/sqlite_jni.c:1622: error: incompatible type for argument 2 of 'sqlite3_vmprintf'
../../lang/sql/generated/sqlite3.h:1986: note: expected 'va_list' but argument is of type 'char *'
native/sqlite_jni.c: In function 'Java_SQLite_Database_vm_1compile_1args':
native/sqlite_jni.c:3282: error: incompatible type for argument 2 of 'sqlite3_vmprintf'
../../lang/sql/generated/sqlite3.h:1986: note: expected 'va_list' but argument is of type 'char *'
make[1]: *** [sqlite_jni.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/db-5.3.15/build_unix/jdbc'
make: *** [jdbc] Error 2
Also tried including --enable-java in the configure script with the same effect.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
-- Jim C

Answer 1

I have done some porting work of Berkeley db4.6.21 on vxworks6.3, and I think my experiences may help:
If you decide to use db-4.5.21, simply open the WorkBench2.5, create a "downloadable kernal module", and then import the db source tree, make sure not to import the files not needed. To see what files to be imported, you can open the db/dist/srcfiles and retrieve the lines with "vx" string, and import only the files listed in the retrieved list.
Then, you can build the project. Note that there are some data type conficts between berkeley db source and the vxworks os, that is the u_int8_t and the like, you will have to remove the definitions in the headers belonging to vxworks.