Subject: Re: Son of "compiling perl"
To: T. Sean (Theo) Schulze <tschulze@compuserve.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@NetBSD.ORG>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/20/1998 06:18:19
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:

: >*Compile* failed?  Or running the perl test suite?  If running perl tests,
: >it wouldn't be the `complex' one, would it?
: 
: Sorry.  I just realized my other answer didn't answer both your 
: questions.  Perl 'make test' fails on lib/odbm.

Perhaps that's because NetBSD doesn't have an odbm.  :>  Of the DBM
packages, only ndbm, db, and sdbm should compile--gdbm if you have that
installd.  (Incidentally, if you have gdbm installed, it may be trying to
build odbm bcause gdbmhas a backend for it that's not quite so reliable.)

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