SL> I have no way of testing this patch myself. Could someone with SL> appropriate access to Berkeley DB 2 please check to be sure this SL> doesn't break older systems? Thanks. SL> 'Nuf said. It was a simple fix so I'll say some more and save Paul some time (CC'ed to xemacs-patches): A minorly changed ChangeLog entry: 1999-03-02 Paul Keusemann <pkeusem(a)visi.com&gt; * database.c (berkdb_map): Add flags argument to cursor call (must be 0 according to docs) required for Berkely DB 2.6.4 and later. --- database.c~orig Tue Mar 2 23:15:17 1999 +++ database.c Tue Mar 2 23:14:24 1999 ＠＠ -501,7 +501,11 ＠＠ { DBC *dbcp; +#if DB_VERSION_MAJOR > 2 || DB_VERSION_MINOR >=6 + status = dbp->cursor (dbp, NULL, &dbcp, 0); +#else status = dbp->cursor (dbp, NULL, &dbcp); +#endif for (status = dbcp->c_get (dbcp, &keydatum, &valdatum, DB_FIRST); status == 0; status = dbcp->c_get (dbcp, &keydatum, &valdatum, DB_NEXT))