On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:

: >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.)
: 
: I do have gdbm installed.  A (good) while back I compiled and installed 
: perl (I don't recall the version), and the example scripts in the Llama 
: book weren't working because my machine couldn't support the database 
: stuff called for in the scripts.  So, I installed gdbm from the Red 
: Book's CD-ROM.  It occurs to me now that I should find out if there is a 
: newer version of gdbm.  Or, should I remove gdbm, re-make perl and redo 
: the tests?

All you *need* to do is hide the "dbm.h" header file temporarily and
re-configure/build Perl.  odbm won't be included since it can't find dbm.h,
and all will be happy.  It's also a good idea to hide gdbm's "ndbm.h" header
file, too, since there's an ndbm front end to Berkeley DB in libc.

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