Thanks much for your tests, David. I'm wondering if the mismatch between your reported perl version 5.8.2 and the location of BerkeleyDB in a 5.6.1 directory has something to do with the results?
Ah, yes, curious. I didn't even know that was installed. Clearly it was part of the Perl included with the OS, since I never use Perl 5.6.1, but my own compiled and installed 5.8.2.
Also, could you let me know your version numbers for BerkeleyDB (the module) and Berkeley DB (the storage mechanism). Thanks!
Interesting, Perl 5.8.2 doesn't seem to able to find it:
sahlins% perl -MBerkeleyDB -le 'print BerkeleyDB->VERSION'
Can't locate BerkeleyDB.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.2/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.2 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
I wonder how it found it when testing DBI? Anyway, /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-freebsd/BerkeleyDB.pm is version 0.17. I'm not sure what version of BerkeleyDB itself is installed, but I suspect that it's 4.0, since I have the directory /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.0 full of stuff.
HTH,
David
