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Automatically probe for library location #9
Description
Previously requested 12 years ago: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=70277
Use ExtUtils::PkgConfig, Devel::CheckLib, etc. to probe for the location of BerkeleyDB inc/lib locations.
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rjbs commentedon Dec 30, 2025
@pmqs It looks like you're at least kinda active. If I had a patch to make this work, would you apply and ship it?
pmqs commentedon Dec 31, 2025
Hey @rjbs
Crikey, I didn't think anyone was still using this code!
In principle I have no problem with a patch.
A few things to be aware of
the current build supports really old versions of the Berkeley DB library.
Probably ok for you to ignore this as long as the existing configuration process is still available.
the other thing that used to happen quite frequently is where someone had multiple versions of the Berkeley DB library on their system and would try to build the code with version "A" of db.h and version "B" of the library. Then bad things would happen.
Do the automated configuration toolsets cope with this scenario?
As long as the option is still available to use the crusty manual method I've put in place I image it should be ok.
rjbs commentedon Jan 6, 2026
I don't actually use it, but wanted to try out some "serve pod as a web page" thing for potential internal use, and it relies on this, and "there's almost a patch to make it go" felt like maybe worth pursuing… :)
pmqs commentedon Jan 6, 2026
Go for it!
rjbs commentedon Sep 26, 2026
Bad news for prospects of me doing this: I worked around the problem locally and all motivation for this is now gone!
pmqs commentedon Sep 30, 2026
No worries