It never fails (bsddb retirement in 2.3)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri May 2 20:12:33 EDT 2003


Nick Vargish wrote:

> Fair enough. Time allowing, I will see what I can do. I'll have to
> learn something about configure scripting... Is logic along the lines
> of, "If OSF1 and no Sleepycat library, use /usr/include/db.h"
> sufficient? 

No, I would prefer "If <some symbol unique to OSF1's db.h> is defined".

Always test for features, never test for systems.

Regards,
Martin





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