les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) (08/18/90)
Has anyone built perl with the GNU dbm package? Any problems? Also, under AT&T '386 unix (3.2.1) I'm getting core dumps when I use the 'c' command with the debugging package, even though all the tests succeed with no complaints. Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us
gaspar@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Al Gaspar) (08/20/90)
| Has anyone built perl with the GNU dbm package? Any problems?
Yes. No. I tried it first with patchlevel 18 and everything seemed
to be ok. I am trying it again with patchlevel 28. It doesn't look
like it is going to be a problem, but I'll have to get past my dirent.h
problem to be sure. I'm on a Unisys 5000/95 running SysVr3.
Cheers--
Al
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uunet.uu.net!stl-08sima.army.mil!gaspargaspar@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Al Gaspar) (08/22/90)
Some further information on using gdbm with perl. Gdbm requires alloca, which on my system (Unisys 5000/95 running SVR3) is available in the libPW.a library. Unfortunately this also defined fatal, which conflicted with fatal in util.o of perl. I finally took a public domain version of alloca (Doug Gwynn's), changed its internal fatal() to be fatal_x(), and added it directly to libgdbm.a. All ten of the dbm tests in op.dbm run ok. Cheers-- Al -- Al Gaspar <gaspar@stl-08sima.army.mil> USAMC SIMA, ATTN: AMXSI-TTC, Box 1578, St. Louis, MO 63188-1578 COMMERCIAL: (314) 331-4354 AUTOVON: 555-4354 uunet.uu.net!stl-08sima.army.mil!gaspar