On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:35 , Phil Pennock <exim-users@???> said:
> On 2011-06-21 at 09:20 +0000, Thew, Alan wrote:
>> Has anyone got exim and cdb working together on a 64 bit OS (RHEL 6 in this case)? cdb is really old now...
>
> My primary dev box is my colo machine, which runs 64-bit FreeBSD and I
> use CDB for most of my configuration files.
>
> Exim's CDB support is internal, using no external libraries, having been
> written by Nigel Metheringham -- I believe that this was done because
> Exim is GPL'd and the uncertainty over licensing of some other sources
> of CDB code led to a reimplementation.
>
> If you're having problems building Exim with CDB, please provide more
> details. If you're having issues with some other CDB implementation as
> relates to Exim, I'm sure someone here can help, if you point out which
> implementation it is.
>
> FreeBSD Ports includes: DJB's cdb, tinycdb
> <http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb.html> and various scripting language
> interfaces. I wrote my mail cdb update tool in Perl, using CDB_File.
>
> The only level at which Exim and other tools work together is via Exim
> reading CDB files generated by the other tools; that's about as clean a
> boundary as you can possibly get. :)
>
The problem was with the cdb tools and the error was not using clean
sources. It's all fine now. Thanks to the people who replied.
Alan thew
