Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 May 2001 14:16:27 +0200 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.4 failure to compile |
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On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:41:16PM +0600, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 May 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > > I think the header file you're talking about is the db1 header file, > > > which has nothing to do with yacc -- it's the Berkeley libdb version 1, > > > which is a pretty bad thing to require. > > > > > > > I've got it to compile (and apparently work) even con libdb3... which > > has the compability header db_185.h (or something similar). > > > > IIRC, libdb1 was bundled with libc till release 2.1.3. Since 2.2 they've > > said 'get it at sleepycat...'. > > > > BTW, there are ifdef inside the driver about which header to include > > (db.h or db_185.h IIRC). > > > > I still doesn't comprend what does it NEED FOR the libdb... > > I don't do any module programming yet, but the lkmpg lists "Using standard > libraries" under "Common Pitfalls". Is anything unusual going on here?
Yup. The code in question is not a module, but rather a userspace-program that generates microcode for the SCSI-adapter(s) in question. As such, using standard libraries is fully ok. The debate is whether libdb1 is to be considered common enough.
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