Berkeley DB version 2.x and OpenLDAP running threads
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-Special care has to be taken, if OpenLDAP is to be used with threads
-activated, while at the same time using Berkeley DB, version 2.x, as
-a slapd back-end. Both, OpenLDAP AND Berkeley DB have to be compiled
-with thread support activated.
+Special care has to be taken when building Berkeley DB 2.x
+for use with OpenLDAP as an slapd backend. If OpenLDAP is used
+with threads, so must Berkeley DB. If OpenLDAP is built without
+threads, so must Berkeley DB. In general, you should use
+the latest Sleepycat version.
-The configuration tool of Sleepycat's Berkeley DB will take provion
-for that on IRIX, OSF/1, and SUN Solaris platforms (version 2.3.16),
-as well as FreeBSD (version 2.6.4), but NOT e.g. on LINUX platforms.
+The configuration tool of Sleepycat's Berkeley DB will automatically
+set appropriate options on IRIX, OSF/1, and SUN Solaris platforms
+(version 2.3.16), as well as FreeBSD (version 2.7.5). The options
+must be manually defined on other plaforms, e.g. on LINUX.
On PC-LINUX (kernel version 2.0.35, linux kernel threads as imple-
mented by libpthreads.so.1.60.4) with gcc as the standard compiler
the environment variable CPPFLAGS must define -D_REENTRANT, while
building the Berkeley DB package.
+
DO NOT USE THE -ansi CFLAG, SINCE THEN THE DB PACKAGE'S CONFIGURE
CANNOT FIND THE X86/GCC SPINLOCKS, WHICH ARE NEEDED FOR THREAD-
SUPPORT WITH THE BERKELEY DB.
-Please check carefully, if your platform is not mentioned above.
-
-The OpenLDAP configure tool will most probably find the correct con-
-figuration itself, so that no special action has to be taken, while
-building the OpenLDAP package.
+Please check carefully if your platform is not mentioned above.
-Jan, 9th, 1999, /KSp (ksp@openldap.org)
+The OpenLDAP configure tool will most probably find the correct
+configuration itself. No special action has to be taken
+while building the OpenLDAP package.
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