[Box Backup-dev] COMMIT r245 - box/trunk/infrastructure/m4

[Jonathan Morton]

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>> However, I notice that the code emitted by configure for this test
>> actually tries to call dbopen(), but the linker complains that
>> __db185_open() is missing.  This tells me that db_185.h is doing
>> something weird that breaks.
>
> Interesting. db_185.h unsurprisingly #defines dbopen to  
> __db185_open so
> that the same .so can provide v4 and v1.85 support. That's exactly how
> the version installed with fedora works. The odd thing is that  
> your .so
> doesn't seem to match your header file.

Yes, I did think it odd.  Might be worth filing a bug with Gentoo.

>> I think the real fix is to move to proper db4 support, but I have no
>> idea what that entails.
>
> I agree and is what I plan. It should be fairly easy - the db4  
> stuff is
> all in the tree now, so really just a configure issue. However, I  
> didn't
> want to do this until after the next release is out because every  
> change
> delays it. I think now though I'll do it before.
>
> However I would like all the tests to pass before changing any more
> functionality. I've only had a little time to spend on it (I think we
> all have day jobs, even if we aren't all emigrating!), but I've worked
> out that the raidfile failures are only on 64 bit. No further than  
> that
> though. I need to fix the time overflow problem on 64 bit too.

Actually, I've had the opposite experience - everything working on  
PPC64, but everything in Raidfile going crazy on PPC32.


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