June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
19h 18m
English
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Building for UNIX
The Berkeley DB distribution uses the Free Software Foundation’s autoconf and libtool tools to build on UNIX platforms. In general, the standard configuration and installation options for these tools apply to the Berkeley DB distribution.
To perform the default UNIX build of Berkeley DB, first change to the build_unix directory and then enter the following two commands:
../dist/configure make
This will build the Berkeley DB library.
To install the Berkeley DB library, enter the following command:
make install
To rebuild Berkeley DB, enter the following:
make clean make
If you change your mind about how Berkeley DB is to be configured, you must start from scratch by entering the following:
make realclean ../dist/configure ...