Or better yet, build it without locking at all -- I've got patches for that if you want them. (Certainly should prefer POSIX locking in general, esp. as autoconf-based programs will too - though the only one I know of it kerberos V5...)
>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.
