Re: ndbm.h and gdbm-compat

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 05:17:03PM +1300, Steven Drake wrote:
 > I've noticed that on Linux systems if gdbm-compat is installed many 
 > packages fail because they see the /usr/include/ndbm.h and think the 
 > system has a native ndbm implementation in either libc or libndbm, neither 
 > of which is true. 
 > 
 > I'm wondering whether there should be an ndbm.buildlink3.mk and
 > ndbm.builtin.mk as part on the solution or should I just fix individual
 > packages one by one.

How many packages are there likely to be? I'd think that the number of
people who remember ndbm ever existed must be pretty small by now.

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David A. Holland
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