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Re: db1 -> db2
- To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
- Subject: Re: db1 -> db2
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: 17 Feb 1999 11:51:50 +0100
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- References: <19990217084930.A23163@allen.suse.de>
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:
|> Hello,
|>
|> With glibc 2.1, we have libdb2. I always thought, that libdb2 could
|> read databases created with libdb1, and convert it if you write to
|> it.
|> This seems not to be true, if I recompile programs using db_185.h and
|> linking them against libdb2, this programs couldn't read any longer
|> their old databases.
|> Is it really necessary to rebuild all the databases ?
Yes. db_185.h and db185.c only emulate the db1 API, but not the db1 ABI.
They still create and expect db2 format databases.
Andreas.