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From: roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Perl Version
Date: 10 Sep 1995 14:55:28 +0200
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In article <42o2l0$ni@gort.ucsd.edu>, Abe Singer <asinger@gort.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Um, does anyone actually *have* perl5.00x working on BSDi 2.0?  It fails
> two tests on my machine:
> 
> 	lib/anydbm.....FAILED on test 0
> 	lib/ndbm.......FAILED on test 0

It is expected to fail here. The Perl tests (both Perl 4 and Perl 5) assume
that when you say you have ndbm, it  will create .dir/.pag files which BSDi
will not  to my knowledge  do because they use (like  the other BSD) the DB
library. The DB library has a API compatible with  ndbm but it will use .db
files. 

When you compile Perl 5, don't  define the module  NDBM. That should do the
trick.

Disclaimer: I do not use BSDi and they may have changed their ndbm handling
since I did look at BSDi. 

[ Cc: to Abe ]
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