use GDBM_File

2002-02-06 Thread Tomas Garcia Ferrari
Hello, I'm trying to get the GDBM_File module working. I downloaded gdbm-1_8_0.tgz from CPAN, and try to compile it using './configure' but I have this line as output: checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one I try using the hostname of my

Re: use GDBM_File

2002-02-06 Thread Edward Moy
On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 06:29 AM, Tomas Garcia Ferrari wrote: I'm trying to get the GDBM_File module working. I downloaded gdbm-1_8_0.tgz from CPAN, and try to compile it using './configure' but I have this line as output: checking host system type... configure: error: can

Re: h2ph problems

2002-02-06 Thread Jonathan Baumgartner
On 2/5/02 2:47 PM, Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before trying the reinstall, you could try just deleting any .ph files you find in /Library/Perl/ . I don't have any .ph files in my /Library/Perl/ tree. Tried that. I actually deleted the entire contents of /Library/Perl as well as

CPAN questions

2002-02-06 Thread Geoffrey F. Green
Hi all. I'm a relative newbie to Unix, and Perl for that matter, so I apologize if the answers to these questions -- which I realize are pretty fundamental ones -- are of the RTFM type. I can say, though, that I've read through the archives on this list, lurked on the list for several months,

Re: CPAN questions

2002-02-06 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Chris Devers [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *make installing modules a lot easier, but it also puts you on autopilot, *and that could mean doing questionable things (like stomping over system *files). Your first question is a good one and I'm also curious if CPAN can *be used in such a way that you

Re: use GDBM_File

2002-02-06 Thread Nicolas Bertrand
Tomás, There is an already compiled gdbm library that may be downloaded at geeklair.net http://www.geeklair.net/downloads/10.1/gdbm-1.8.0-macosx.tar.gz download the tar file, untar it. su to root cd to the untared gdbm-1.0.8 directory make install #This will install the library to