Subject: Re: gdbm, libgdbm3, libgdbm-devel 1.8.3-1
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:47:57 +0200

Hallo Charles,

Am Samstag, 29. März 2003 um 06:47 schriebst du:

> This means the cyggdbm_devel-3.dll is also in the libgdbm3 package.
                        ^^^^^^
                        _compat
> Further, it means that any application code that USED the "dbm" or 
> "ndbm" personalities, now needs to link with "-lgdbm_compat -lgdbm" and 
> not just -lgdbm.  Most programs don't use the compatibility 
> personalities, and can simply continue to link only against -lgdbm.

I linked just with libgdbm_compat for the NDBM_File and ODBM_File Perl
modules, works fine, all tests successful.

Gerrit
-- 
=^..^=

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/