[csw-maintainers] Shared library placement proposal

[Philip Brown]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>...
>
> Alternatives would make a good choice for this if combined with a
> private directory (eg: /opt/csw/include/bdb4{6,7,8,etc}) for fallback
> -I use...I think.  This could also work for the .so symlinks.
>

no, that is not a good idea.
with berkeleydb, we do NOT want a generic db.h.
We actually tried this last year or something, to track along with
"latest version".

It failed miserably, and we had to back it out, with much pain.
For some troublesome software, you have to use a specific version, and
know exactly which version you are using, to compile something else.
Berkeleydb is the pinnacle of such badly written software, unfortunately.