Compiling dbxml with berkeley 5.1.19

Question

I'm trying to compile dbxml using 5.1.19 source. E.g.:
+sh buildall.sh with-berkeleydb=/home/mariano/Code/srcs/db-5.1.19 prefix=/home/mariano/Code/compiled/dbxml/+
however I'm getting the following error:
Start DB XML build: Tue Dec 14 00:13:58 ART 2010
Configuring DB XML
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
+checking if --enable-debug option specified... no+
+checking if --enable-test option specified... no+
+checking if --with-berkeleydb=DIR option specified... /home/mariano/Code/compiled/dbxml+
+checking if --with-dbbuild=DIR option specified... ../..//home/mariano/Code/srcs/db-5.1.19+
checking for Berkeley DB version from install tree... 4.8
+5.1+
configure: error: /home/mariano/Code/compiled/dbxml is version 4.8
+5.1, which is not a supported version of Berkeley DB. The version must be at least 4.3+
First error is obvious: it seems dbxml cannot be compiled with somethin newer than 4.8. Is this right?
The second error is in the following line:
+checking if --with-berkeleydb=DIR option specified... /home/mariano/Code/compiled/dbxml+
it tells me the berkeleydb option is set to */home/mariano/Code/compiled/dbxml* when I specified with-berkeleydb=/home/mariano/Code/srcs/db-5.1.19.
Can someone offer a tip on the problem?
TIA

Answer 1

Hi,
A generated configure script for DB XML 2.5.16 checks only for versions of BDB starting from 4.3 to 4.8, hence the misleading error message.
if test "$db_version" != "4.3" && test "$db_version" != "4.4" && test "$db_version" != "4.5" && test "$db_version" != "4.6" && test "$db_version" != "4.7" && test "$db_version" != "4.8"; then
                { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: $with_berkeleydb is version $db_version, which is not a supported version of Berkeley DB. The version must be at least 4.3" >&5
echo "$as_me: error: $with_berkeleydb is version $db_version, which is not a supported version of Berkeley DB. The version must be at least 4.3" >&2;}
   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
fiI'm not sure whether I understood your second problem, but you can try to fix the first one by using BDB 4.8 or even actually omit the --with-berkeleydb parameter and then the distributed with DB XML version of BDB will be used, and then see whether the second problem is eliminated.
Any reasons that you opt to use BDB 5.1?
Vyacheslav