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From: mheins@prairienet.org (Mike Heins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: GDBM library build on BSDI
Date: 20 Feb 1997 09:25:28 GMT
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Mike Heins (mheins@prairienet.org) wrote:
: (repost from comp.lang.perl.misc)
: 
: I believe I am having some locking problems with DB_File on a BSDI 2.1
: system (and probably others using DB_File).  I would like to test
: with GDBM_File, which has integral locking, but can't get Perl to
: build with it.
: 
: I built the library OK, though the test programs ('make progs') would
: not all compile, and a quick test with 'testgdbm' appears to work.
: But when I build the library into Perl (both 5.003_00 and 5.003_26)
: the lib/gdbm test fails on test 5 (and 6 and 7, when run manually
: from the test directory).  All other tests pass.
: 

Solved the problem by linking the library statically -- still no
luck with building dynamic.

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