Re: Compiling perl 5.004_04 for sparc/slink
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Christian Meder wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 11:21:25PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm trying to compile a copy of 5.004_04 for sparc/slink. The catalyst
> > for this is that I discovered that our current 5.004 doesn't have
> > GDBM_file support compiled in.
> >
> > I succeeded eventually in compiling it (the hitch was an already open bug,
> > that 5.004 doesn't compile with libc2.1-pre versions), but I've hit
> > another snag:
> >
> > I also need the DB_File extension to work. Unfortunately, Perl won't build
> > the DB_File extension against Berkeley DB version 2, only Berkeley DB
> > version 1 - and AFAICS, we don't have a libc6 dev-package of Berkeley DB
> > version 1.
> >
> > This is a slight mystery, since I don't see how the version currently *in*
> > slink got compiled, since that does have db support..
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Yes. I compiled the current perl package. You've got to patch the configure
> script to look for db_185.h instead of db.h. I thought I filed a bug report
> and it was closed because it's fixed in the newer upstream release (potato).
> I can't check my mails right now.
I don't see a bug report. Maybe it was closed ages ago. IMHO, it
shouldn't have been closed - since it is making it hard for me to compile
the slink version properly, so we can freeze.
Jules
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