bugDatabase-driven manual pager suite - Bugs: bug #48799, Support ./configure --without-db

 
 

bug #48799: Support ./configure --without-db

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Submitted:  Tue 16 Aug 2016 03:24:30 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
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Tue 16 Aug 2016 03:47:34 PM UTC, comment #1: 

man didn't depend on a database library because it did its own (slow) thing with flat files.  I'll think about whether --without-db would be feasible, though database handling is woven through quite a bit of man-db and it may be somewhat fiddly.

Colin Watson <cjwatson>
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Tue 16 Aug 2016 03:24:30 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi,

Currently, man-db supports `./configure --with-db=foo` to specify a database engine to use. If not specified, an engine is autodetected. If no supported engine is found, configuration fails ("[Fatal: no supported database library/header found]").

From what I understand, it's only used for optional cached indexes, and whatis/apropos databases...?

If so, I don't use any of these, and I would like man-db not to depend on Berkeley DB, GDBM, or any other database engine. Compilation of whatis/apropos could be skipped in this case.

It would be specified through a `./configure --without-db` I suppose.

No other package on my system currently depends on Berkeley DB or GDBM.

Old `man` didn't depend on either.

Thanks in advance.

Anonymous

 

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