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In general, the standard 166configuration and installation options for these tools apply to the 167Berkeley DB distribution.</p> 168 <p>To do a standard UNIX build of Berkeley DB, change to the <span class="bold"><strong>build_unix</strong></span> 169directory and then enter the following two commands:</p> 170 <pre class="programlisting">../dist/configure 171make</pre> 172 <p>This will build the Berkeley DB library.</p> 173 <p>To install the Berkeley DB library, enter the following command:</p> 174 <pre class="programlisting">make install</pre> 175 <p>To rebuild Berkeley DB, enter:</p> 176 <pre class="programlisting">make clean 177make</pre> 178 <p>If you change your mind about how Berkeley DB is to be configured, you must 179start from scratch by entering the following command:</p> 180 <pre class="programlisting">make realclean 181../dist/configure 182make</pre> 183 <p>To uninstall Berkeley DB, enter:</p> 184 <pre class="programlisting">make uninstall</pre> 185 <p>To build multiple UNIX versions of Berkeley DB in the same source tree, create 186a new directory at the same level as the build_unix directory, and then 187configure and build in that directory as described previously.</p> 188 </div> 189 </div> 190 <div class="navfooter"> 191 <hr /> 192 <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> 193 <tr> 194 <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="build_s60_notes.html">Prev</a> </td> 195 <td width="20%" align="center"> </td> 196 <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="build_unix_conf.html">Next</a></td> 197 </tr> 198 <tr> 199 <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">S60 notes </td> 200 <td width="20%" align="center"> 201 <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> 202 </td> 203 <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Configuring Berkeley DB</td> 204 </tr> 205 </table> 206 </div> 207 </body> 208</html> 209