Bug#283054: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#283054: db4.3_4.3.21-1(hppa/unstable): FTBFS: configure dies at startup

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 02:32:56PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> 
> This is the problem: if modern versions of Berkeley DB are built on a
> buildd that supports NPTL, configure will decide to build the libraries
> with POSIX mutexes.  Then, when a user running, say, Linux 2.4.16 installs
> the libdb package on that arch, it fails to work.  We discussed a long
> time ago compiling NPTL-happy instances of libdb and sticking them in
> /usr/lib/tls, but not much work has been done on that.

Why don't you just disable them in configure like you do in db4.1
and db4.2?  Look at my patch for #281059 to see how you can
change the configure script not enable them instead of patching
configure directly.


Kurt