On 09/27/2009 09:41 PM, lanas wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>    I noticed tha the recent LFS has a GDBM dependency for building
> Perl.  This was not the case in 6.4.  I'd like to know what is this
> dependency about and, if it's possible to build Perl w/o it.
>
> Thanks,

It certainly is possible - that dependency is only mentioned because 
GDBM was added to the book to replace Berkeley DB (as Man-DB needs one 
of those) and Perl can optionally use GDBM. I don't know what exactly 
Perl does with GDBM - might only use it in the testsuite - but it is 
definitely optional.
-- 
http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html
Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Reply via email to