[BDB 11gR2 Beta] Using FTS2 with the BDB SQLite compatibility library code

[Hexxeh]

Yep, that's right. There's an option (just like with Firefox) to use the
system version of SQLite which after a little of of fiddling works as you'd
expect.

Liam

On 2 March 2010 20:54, Greg Burd <GREG.BURD at oracle.com> wrote:

> Sandra,
>
> Chromium OS is a Linux variant built by Google (sometimes called the
> "Google OS") which boots up and then uses the Google browser, Chromium (aka
> Chrome), for everything.  Essentially, this is almost identical to what
> we've done with Firefox porting.  Liam is replacing the Chromium web
> browser's use of SQLite with BDB SQL.  That then runs on this stripped down
> version of Linux and runs on a 2GB USB.
>
> When Liam looked into the way that Chromium web browser used SQLite he
> found that it:
> a) modified it, patching bugs, adding external functions using the SQLite
> extensions API
> b) used FTS2 (not FTS3) for full-text search
> c) linked this statically against the browser
>
> For us to help Liam we will need to help him:
> a) determine what patches to apply and how to apply them to BDB SQL (if
> necessary)
> b) integrate the Google custom functions
> c) integrate FTS2 for full-text search
>
> I believe he's already found a way to link Chromium against a dynamic
> sqlite3.so library rather than statically compile/link the amalgamated
> SQLite source as it does today.
>
> Did I get that right Liam?
>
> -greg
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sandra Whitman
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 3:04 PM
> > To: Hexxeh
> > Cc: bdb-beta-feedback at oss.oracle.com
> > Subject: Re: [BDB 11gR2 Beta] Using FTS2 with the BDB SQLite
> > compatibility library code
> >
> > Hi Liam,
> >
> > I am not familiar with the Chromium OS, but if it is UNIX-like then any
> > arguments which can be passed to a standard SQLite configure script can
> > also be passed to the Berkeley DB configure script. For example, I
> > typically build:
> >
> > ../dist/configure CPPFLAGS="-DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3" --enable-sql
> > or
> > ../dist/configure CPPFLAGS="-DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3" --enable-sql_compat
> >
> > As Dave mentioned, let me know the problem you are having and I can
> > check further.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sandra
> >
> > Hexxeh wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to integrate the new BDB SQLite compatible library into
> > > Chromium/ChromiumOS, and I'm encountering a few issues that I hope
> > one
> > > of you may have the answer to.
> > >
> > > One requirement of Chromium is the FTS2 extension, has anyone managed
> > > to successfully use this with the library? If so, how did you
> > > accomplish this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Liam McLoughlin
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