Re: perl linked with gdbm?
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 19:18:20 +0000, Marc Haber wrote:
> Should I try to shut the compiler up by installing gdbm?
For now, yes. Quite likely perl's dependency on gdbm will be remove in a
future version of the perl packages.
> |I suppose it's possible that the Debian crowd messed up their Perl
> |build and linked statically against libgdbm.a when *they* built Perl
> |but that you don't have libgdbm.a installed on your system.
>
> Is that a bug in the perl package?
perl shouldn't depend on gdbm anymore (as that's deprecated); this issue is
known by the perl maintainer.
> |With Red Hat Linux, for example, the archive library libgdbm.a is in
> |the gdbm-devel RPM whereas the libgdbm.so stuff is all that most
> |people need and lives in the gdbm RPM.
>
> So I would install devel/libgdbmg1-dev and be off-hook?
Yes.
HTH,
Ray
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