Installing Berkeley DB on MacOS

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Build instructions

1. Download the binaries from here: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/db/index.html.

2. Extract the downloaded zip file in the ~/software/db-4.7.25/ directory.

3. Go to the build_unix directory. It works for MacOS too!

cd build_unix

4. Enable java linked library.

../dist/configure --enable-java

5. Build it

make

6. Install it. You need sudo access.

sudo make install

7. Lastly, you need to update the libdir

export LIBDIR=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.7/lib:$LIBDIR

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