Solved BDB problem
It took me longer than it should have for me to twig to the problem. As with other problems, it was down to the run-time library fiasco that is Microsoft. Eventually I built a version of the libdb DLL that didn’t lock up my debugger.
That means binaries are in the offing; unfortunately my pitiful hosting does not have space so I will have to do some housecleaning before I can upload them.
Beyond offering the new features promised by the point release, I can now say that the Python and C# unit test suites run successfully with the new binaries. I’m not sure how to package the Ruby stuff correctly, so no binaries for that this time.
In the meantime, I’ll be sending new patches off to redland-dev for both the bindings and the core libraries. These are a lot smaller and tighter this time. With any luck, all I’ll have to do next release is update the macro definitions and run my packaging script.