Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

When I was installing db 4.1 myself, I ran into Perl's problem. I didn't 
know about the -D things, so what I did was (in PRE_BUILD): 1) rm -fr 
<DB_File source dir> from Perl's source; 2) untar the latest DB_File 
instead, into the directory by the same name. For this to work properly, 
DB_File source has to be mentioned in DETAILS, of course. This is pretty 
good solution because everything else stays the same, and additional 
code is very small.

Eric Sandall wrote:

> All,
>
> Once I can confirm we have the patches for apache and apache-mod_ssl (the
> only spells which require patches to compile), I will do the following:
>
> 1.  Modify OpenOffice's SOURCE20 to use db-4.1
> 2.  Modify perl's BUILD to use -Ui_db
> 3.  Update db to 4.1.25
>
> What spell should depend on DB_File?  DB_File depends on perl, so perl
> cannot depend on DB_File, DB_File depends on db as well, so db cannot
> depend on DB_File.  Is DB_File necessary?
>
> 4.  Once the above is figured out, I will apply the needed changes
> 5.  Commit these changes
>
> Sound good?
>
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle
>
>