Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk> wrote:
> I don't know perl, and am only going on what Ray has been telling me.
> It was my understanding that perl could be made to dynamically load
> it's gdbm part on request and that way perl need only recommend or
> (better) suggest gdbm.  Is this not the case?

A quick test using strace suggests that this is already the case.

My not-always-correct memory suggests that the gdbm support code
currently lives in /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004/auto/GDBM_File
(at least for the intel world).

-- 
Raul


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