[MacPerl-AnyPerl] Re: DB_File

[Richard Gordon <maccgi@bellsouth.net>]

At 13:13 -0700 5/3/1999, Vicki Brown wrote:
>Check for the presence of Berkeley DB.
>
>As I discovered when building Perl for our Solaris box, if Berkeley DB is
>not found when you build Perl, DB_File is not built. Except for a few tests
>failing, there is no indication that DB_File was not built.
>
>Than I went and found Berekeley DB and what ho! I had to rebuild Perl. A
>real nuisance.

Fortunately, AnyDBM_File seemed to work fine, so it wasn't that big 
of a deal. I gather that DB_File is the most sophisticated of the 
dbm's and I just took it for granted that it would be there.


Richard Gordon
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