[Dxspider-support] spider on os x

[Steven Franke]

I did have to re-make DB_File. The DB_File src is supplied with the 
Berkeley DB distribution. It is necessary to fix up the config.in file 
in the DB_File source directory to tell it where to find the new 
BerkeleyDB. Installing this was all that was necessary. So far, I have 
not had to compile and install a new Perl.

I had to remove the old dupefile, qsl database and user database before 
I could restart the cluster. The user database was reconstituted from 
user_asc. Apparently the database files created using version 1.5 were 
too old to be read by version 4.3...



On Feb 7, 2005, at 4:23 AM, Dirk Koopman wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 10:07 +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote:
>> 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'.
>>
>
> and to reply to my reply: you will, almost certainly, have to compile 
> up
> a custom perl. As, I believe, DB_File is now part of the standard
> distribution.
>
> However, if you can download a copy of the DB_File tarball from CPAN 
> (or
> even just do this in the DB_File directory of the latest perl tarball).
> Extract the tarball (is still required), cd to the directory created,
> perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install should update the
> standard one that comes with OS-X.
>
> Dirk
>
>
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