RE: Global + Latest Berkeley DB

[Bakken, Luke]

The crashing was pretty weird - if I added blank lines to the files
causing gctags to crash it wouldn't crash. I could never track down the
exact cause, but it was in the DB code I believe. Changing Global to use
Berkeley DB 4.1 seems to have made the problem completely disappear.

I can see that the latest version of BDB is quite a bit different than
the one that is included with Global, but I'm not so sure about the
differences between the 4.X and 3.X versions, which is what most people
should have available.

Anyway, if you're interested I am planning on porting this to the latest
Global so I can use the new C version of htags.

Luke

-----Original Message-----
From: Shigio Yamaguchi [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wed 12/1/2004 7:20 PM
To: Bakken, Luke
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Global + Latest Berkeley DB
 
Hi,
> I have updated the version of global I use (4.7.1) to compile with the
> latest Berkeley DB and have modified the autoconf scripts to detect
> whether or not a version of this DB is available.

Since there are a lot of version of Berkeley DB and they are not
compatible
each other, I worry about a big mess by supporting new version.
Are there any merit for GLOBAL users?

> has eliminated some of the random crashes I would get while indexing a
> large quantity of source code.

At present, such a problem report has not been received.
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