Subject: Re: Son of "compiling perl"
To: T. Sean (Theo) Schulze <tschulze@compuserve.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@NetBSD.ORG>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/20/1998 06:18:19
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:
: >*Compile* failed? Or running the perl test suite? If running perl tests,
: >it wouldn't be the `complex' one, would it?
:
: Sorry. I just realized my other answer didn't answer both your
: questions. Perl 'make test' fails on lib/odbm.
Perhaps that's because NetBSD doesn't have an odbm. :> Of the DBM
packages, only ndbm, db, and sdbm should compile--gdbm if you have that
installd. (Incidentally, if you have gdbm installed, it may be trying to
build odbm bcause gdbmhas a backend for it that's not quite so reliable.)
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