Quote from: sgtstein on August 03, 2010, 05:30:37 PM (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=685.msg7275#msg7275)
I have successfully built it with 4.8, 4.7 never would but with 4.8 bitcoind locks up whenever it dumps the initial block download to disk. 
I urge you not to use BDB 4.8. The database/log0000* files will be incompatible if anyone uses your build and then goes back to the official build.