Takahiro Kambe wrote:
> In message <468AACBE.7070706@berklee.edu>
> 	on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:08:30 -0400,
> 	Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu> wrote:
>> I was just installing ruby18-base from pkgsrc-2007Q2 on Linux (redhat)
>> and found this...
> ...
>> => Checking file-check results for ruby18-base-1.8.6nb1
>> ERROR: ************************************************************
>> ERROR: The following files are in the PLIST but not in /usr/pkg:
>> ERROR:         /usr/pkg/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux/dbm.so
>> *** Error code 1
> This is typical case that ruby's configure script couldn't find dbm
> (or its compatible) library.
> 
> Dose your system installed dbm library, gdbm or somethine?
> 

Yes it does. Perl depends on gdbm...

$ rpm -q --whatrequires libgdbm.so.2
perl-5.8.5-36.RHEL4
cyrus-sasl-2.1.19-5.EL4
python-2.3.4-14.4

... unfortunately I end up with these in the "base system" because of
things like up2date.

Louis