> I tried grabbing the current gdbm and db packages. Please check if you're using the following: libdb1-1.85.2-5.deb, libdb1-dev-1.85.2-5.deb, libgdbm1-1.7.3-8.deb, libgdbm1-dev-1.7.3-8.deb
> We have a problem > with ndbm. When H.J.Lu still maintained these, we had discussed that > db should not be used to emulate ndbm, but that gdbm should. But the > current packages have reverted. Now db is installing the > /usr/include/ndbm.h and gdbm is not installing any ndbm.h. master jdassen 07:19:57 /ftp/debian/unstable/binary/devel > dpkg -l libdb1 libdb1-dev libgdbm1 libgdbm1-dev Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Rev Description +++-============-=========-====-=============================================== ii libdb1 1.85.2 5 the Berkeley database routines (runtime version ii libdb1-dev 1.85.2 5 the Berkeley database routines (development fil ii libgdbm1 1.7.3 8 GNU dbm database routines (runtime version). ii libgdbm1-dev 1.7.3 8 GNU dbm database routines (development files) master jdassen 07:22:12 /ftp/debian/unstable/binary/devel > find /usr/include -name ndbm.h /usr/include/ndbm.h /usr/include/db/ndbm.h master jdassen 07:22:27 /ftp/debian/unstable/binary/devel > dpkg -S /usr/include/ndbm.h libgdbm1-dev: /usr/include/ndbm.h ^^^^^^^^ Are you sure you're using the latest versions? [...] > We need the following: > > 1) db must install in /usr/include/db. If you have an application > that you know will work with db, then you simply do > -I/usr/include/db and -ldb. This has been done already. > 2) gdbm must install it's ndbm.h (with prototypes) in /usr/include. It does. > libndbm.xxx is symlinked to libgdbm.xxx. For both .a and .so; done in the current package. > 3) gdbm should be built with flock turned off. flock is not > compatible with fcntl locking (if gdbm locks the file with flock > and your app uses fcntl you lose.) Since fcntl locking is POSIX we > should prefer it. Unfortunately, gdbm-1.7.3 builds out-of-the-box > with flock, so you must manually edit the autoconf.h. Isn't it possible to tell Configure our preference? Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
