diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 2103dc4fa..3cf6c7268 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ whole rxr-tree.
  - Dimitar Zhekov: added etc/fstab to 2nd_stage_small
                    fixed some pkgcheck useage
  - Benjamin Schieder: some blindcoder repository updates
+ - Juergen Sawinski: improved bdb's
 
 *) 2003-07-30 (2.0.0-beta7 - 2.0.0-rc1)
 
diff --git a/package/base/bdb40/bdb40.conf b/package/base/bdb40/bdb40.conf
index 9078858cb..090f09159 100644
--- a/package/base/bdb40/bdb40.conf
+++ b/package/base/bdb40/bdb40.conf
@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@
 # include the generic config for any bdb
 . $base/package/base/bdb*/bdb_config.sh
 
+var_append confopt ' ' "--enable-compat185"
diff --git a/package/base/bdb41/bdb41.conf b/package/base/bdb41/bdb41.conf
index c6ad58d65..871720799 100644
--- a/package/base/bdb41/bdb41.conf
+++ b/package/base/bdb41/bdb41.conf
@@ -24,5 +24,6 @@
 . $base/package/base/bdb*/bdb_config.sh
 
 hook_add postmake 3 "ln -sfv ${pkg:1}/db.h $root/$prefix/include/db.h"
-hook_add postmake 4 'ln -s ${pkg:1} $root/$prefix/include/${pkg:1:3}'
+hook_add postmake 4 'ln -sfv ${pkg:1} $root/$prefix/include/${pkg:1:3}'
 
+var_append confopt ' ' "--enable-compat185"