cdb: Install

Prerequisites:

python3 (for: build) (but you can skip this dependency by editing conf-home in other ways)
gcc (for: build)

Make sure to test the compiled code.

Installation scope

The installation is of commands: binaries cdbdump, cdbget, cdbmake, cdbstats, cdbtest, scripts cdbmake-12 and cdbmake-sv, and the same for cdb64.

There is also a C API for reading databases, but the library per se is not installed: applications instead integrate the relevant C files (currently cdb.h, cdb.c, cdb_hash.c, byte.h, byte_copy.c, byte_diff.c, inbuf.h, inbuf_unixread.c, seek.h, seek_set.c, num.h).

For sysadmins

To install in /usr/local/bin:

make -j8 install

For developers with an unprivileged account

Typically you'll already have

export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"

in $HOME/.profile. To install in $HOME/bin:

./configure --prefix=$HOME && make -j8 install

For distributors creating a package

Run

./configure --prefix=/usr && make -j8

and then follow your usual packaging procedures for the binaries and scripts.

More options

You can edit the files conf-cc and conf-ld to control the choices of compiler and linker.

For example, sed -i s/gcc/filcc/ conf-cc conf-ld switches from gcc to Fil-C. Switching to Fil-C is recommended for all applications that (1) work with Fil-C and (2) aren't a bottleneck for you. This package works with Fil-C.

Version: This is version 2025.10.21 of the "Install" web page.