Bug 35424

Summary:	gift-openft will not build with db4
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Darian Rackham <darian>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) <pauldv>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	m.debruijne, net-p2p
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Darian Rackham 2003-12-09 01:16:35 UTC

The gift-openft plugin needs to be built with support for berkeley db 
3 or 4 on any machine that is to run as a search node.  However, 
gift-openft's configure script fails to locate either version 
when both db3 and db4 are installed. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge /usr/portage/sys-libs/db/db-3.3.11.ebuild 
2. emerge /usr/portage/sys-libs/db/db-4.1.25_p1-r3.ebuild 
3. emerge gift-openft 
Actual Results:  
You'll notice that configure has this line near the end of its output: 
 
uze libdb...............: no 
 
I'm sure "uze" is a typo for "use", but anyway...  Without libdb 
support, setting class=3 in OpenFT.conf will cause giftd to fail on 
startup with an error like: 
 
[23:17] *** GIFT-ERROR: OpenFT: dropping FT_NODE_SEARCH status due to lacking 
libdb support 
 

Expected Results:  
gift-openft's configure should find the latest version of db installed 
and use it. 

As a workaround, unmerging db4, emerging gift-openft, then re-emerging db 
(assuming you still want it) seems to have worked for me. 
 
It was suggested to me by the developer that the current poor 
performance of the OpenFT network is due in part to the lack of search 
nodes.  Apparently, users who run search nodes also get better results... 
so it would be really nifty if we could get this to work. 
 
I know this bug is common to many ebuilds, and I've been trying in vain to 
patch it myself.  I'd be pleased If someone could point me toward any docs 
on making ebuilds db4 friendly.

Comment 1 Jon Hood (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-06 14:30:49 UTC

Is this still happening with gift-openft-0.2.1.3?

Comment 2 Jon Hood (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-27 19:49:56 UTC

With the latest version of gift-openft in portage and with the libdb stuff installed,
uze libdb...............: yes

:)

Comment 3 Jon Hood (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-27 20:15:11 UTC

btw, berkdb is now added to the USE flags to enable/disable becoming a node :)