in reply to need help with DB_File

It looks like your db libraries and header files are mismatched versions... what kind of system are you running on?
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Re: Re: need help with DB_File
by strfry() (Monk) on May 16, 2001 at 22:51 UTC
    slackware 7.1 "out of the box".. tried to compile db 1.85 but got weird errors ):
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      Hmm, I have no expeiernce with slackware, but it really does sound like incompatible libraries, or two different version copies on your system...
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        yeah, slackware has multiple versions of db
        from a `locate libdb|egrep so` 
        /lib/libdb-3.1.so
/lib/libdb.so
/lib/libdb.so.2
/lib/libdb.so.3
/lib/libdb1.so.2
/lib/libdb1.so.2.1.3
/lib/libdb2.so.3
/usr/i386-slackware-linux-gnulibc1/lib/libdb.so.1
/usr/i386-slackware-linux-gnulibc1/lib/libdb.so.1.85.4
/usr/lib/libdb1.so
/usr/lib/libdb2.so

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        yeah, slackware has multiple versions on there... apparently they're supposed to peacefully co-exist (:
        (argv)[luser(/home/luser)] locate libdb|egrep so|egrep -v aout
/lib/libdb-3.1.so
/lib/libdb.so
/lib/libdb.so.2
/lib/libdb.so.3
/lib/libdb1.so.2
/lib/libdb1.so.2.1.3
/lib/libdb2.so.3
/usr/i386-slackware-linux-gnulibc1/lib/libdb.so.1
/usr/i386-slackware-linux-gnulibc1/lib/libdb.so.1.85.4
/usr/lib/libdb1.so
/usr/lib/libdb2.so

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