Berkeley DB an Emacs

Berkeley DB an Emacs

[Kevin A. Burton]

Has anyone done any work to port/integrate berkeley DB within Emacs?

I'm thinking of spending some time building a symbol cross reference 
system within Emacs but need a decent database backend.

Berkeley DB would be perfect and the GPL license fits.

Also, as an aside - can Emacs do dynamic linking to native libraries?   
It would be a good way to build external C packages without having to 
actually recompile my whole Emacs.

I've spent some time on this before but it just didn't seem possible.

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Re: Berkeley DB an Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:27:50 -0800
> From: "Kevin A. Burton" <burton@newsmonster.org>
> 
> Also, as an aside - can Emacs do dynamic linking to native libraries?   

No, it doesn't, IIRC, to discourage the use of non-free software with
Emacs.

Re: Berkeley DB an Emacs

[Kevin A. Burton]

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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:27:50 -0800
>>From: "Kevin A. Burton" <burton@newsmonster.org>
>>
>>Also, as an aside - can Emacs do dynamic linking to native libraries?   
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>No, it doesn't, IIRC, to discourage the use of non-free software with
>Emacs.
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It also discourages the use of free-software within Emacs IMO...

Kevin

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Re: Berkeley DB an Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

> It also discourages the use of free-software within Emacs IMO...

Yup,


        Stefan

Re: Berkeley DB an Emacs

[Kevin A. Burton]

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Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>It also discourages the use of free-software within Emacs IMO...
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>Yup,
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Especially because I was thinking of building an some external GPL 
modules that I wanted to keep portable to Emacs 20.x as well as 21.  
Which would of course have been GPL :)

Kevin

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