[Dxspider-support] spider on os x

[Dirk Koopman]

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 23:37 -0600, Steven Franke wrote:
> After doing some more tests outside of spider, I determined that the 
> Berkeley DB library as seen through DB_File was fundamentally broken on 
> all three instances of OS X (Panther) 10.3.7 that I have access to. 
> Databases can be created and examined, but the db gets scrambled when 
> records are deleted. This explains the spider crashes that I have seen. 
> The version of Berkeley DB on these machines is 1.5. Updating to 4.3 
> (big jump!) and reinstalling DB_File seems to work - at least my small 
> test scripts now produce sensible results. If I find out that this is 
> not the solution, I'll send an update to the list.

1.5? That is ancient!!! The generally accepted "public domain" version
is 1.84 (or 1.85).

Using anything above 2.0 will be fine. A 4.x version will read
'old' (but just how old is unknown) versions of DB_Files without having
to do manually do a 'perl user_asc'.

Dirk