Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] About This .pm Stuff

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 19.11 -0400 1999.04.30, Richard Gordon wrote:
>I want to do something that uses DB_File and was a little surprised
>to find that it is not installed on my client's Solaris server. Am I
>correct in thinking (actually just hoping) that I could take DB_File
>from the MacPerl distribution and just copy it into their site_perl
>directory as long as the line endings are okay?

No.  It must be compiled.

>I know about all the
>makefile stuff, but this would be a lot simpler if it will work. In
>general, can you just swap .pm files around like that?

In general, no.  Sometimes, yes.  Sometimes module files are created by the
Makefile or something else to be platform-specific (such as with Errno or
Config).  Sometimes they require compilation.  For the latter case, look in
the module file for a "bootstrap" call.  If you see it, then the module
uses external code in an XS file or somesuch.

In this case, you should use the AnyDBM_File module.  It works almost
exactly like the DB_File module, but will work on any perl platform (using
whatever DBM module happens to be available).

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