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Re: What happened to NDBM_File?



On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:07:04AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote:
>It appears to be gone in perl 5.8.1. Was this deliberate?

Nope.

>$ perl -v
> 
>This is perl, v5.8.1 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
> 
>... snip ...
>
>$ perl -e 'use NDBM_File'
>Can't locate NDBM_File.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /home/dave/lib/perl /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.1 /usr/share/perl/5.8.1 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at -e line 1.
>BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.

Bother.  It appears that the dbm/ndbm compatability routines have been
split into a separate library.

I'll rebuild shortly.

--bod



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