[gentoo-user] Re: GDBM incompatibility woes; any experts out there?

2010-08-09 Thread walt

On 08/09/2010 12:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

 ...

Now I find that not only
do the gdbm modules of python and perl reject my files, but so does a C program 
that uses the distributed
libgdbm.


You didn't say how long ago the problem started, but looking at the
files in sys-libs/gdbm I see nothing newer than March 20.  Is your
problem newer than March 20?

Have you tried running your test program with strace?




Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GDBM incompatibility woes; any experts out there?

2010-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 08/09/2010 12:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

  ...

  Now I find that not only
 do the gdbm modules of python and perl reject my files, but so does a C
 program that uses the distributed
 libgdbm.


 You didn't say how long ago the problem started, but looking at the
 files in sys-libs/gdbm I see nothing newer than March 20.  Is your
 problem newer than March 20?

 Have you tried running your test program with strace?


I hadn't done anything with that application in over a year, so I did not
have any way to narrow it down.
As it happens, I had a sudden rush of brains to the head and read the ewarn
message that comes out
when you compile gdbm, to the effect that 32-bit systems may have to
rebuild, etc, etc.

As I suspected, it was LFS-related.

Write it off as a case of RTFLog.

Now all I have to do is discover why an ewarn wasn't emailed to me -- I
thought I had that set up.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD