Compiling Oracle BerkeleyDB-XML on Ubuntu
This HowTo refers to release 2.4.16 of Oracle's BerkeleyDB/XML. As documented by Zeth, there are still some errors in the distribution package which prevent it from compiling fine on Ubuntu. The best way is to patch the installation package with a patch file which I have produced. Proceed as below:
First you need to make sure that the external dependencies are available. One major change is from xerces 2.8 to xerces 3.0. .....
- download dbxml version 2.4.16 from http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/xml/index.html
- download the patch file from here
- tar xvfz dbxml-2.4.16.tar.gz
- chmod -R u+w dbxml-2.4.16
- cd dbxml-2.4.16
- patch -p1 <../dbxml-2.4.16-patch
The result should look like this:
patching file dbxml/dist/configure patching file dbxml/dist/swig/dbxml_python.i patching file dbxml/examples/python/examples.py patching file dbxml/src/python/dbxml.py patching file dbxml/src/python/setup.py
Then you can proceed as described by Zeth. Enter the following commands:
- cd dbxml/build_unix
- CFLAGS="-DSWIG_PYTHON_NO_USE_GIL" ../dist/configure --with-berkeleydb=/usr/lib/ --with-xqilla=/usr/lib/ --with-xerces=/usr/
- make
- sudo make install
Now you should have a working DBXML installation in /usr/local/BerkeleyDBXML.2.4. Now go back to the source directory.
- cd dbxml-2.4.16/
- cd dbxml/src/python/
- CFLAGS="-DSWIG_PYTHON_NO_USE_GIL" python setup.py build
- sudo python setup.py install
Now you should have a working python API. As of now you will be able to try out the examples given in dbxml/examples/python/
