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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:52:21 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
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Subject: Re: can not install libwww-perl-5.61
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perl's dbm interface is handled by the gdbm library (in its ndbm 
emulation mode).  Unfortunately, gdbm(dbm-mode) has problems on FAT 
drives (which is all W98 has...and you're running on W98).

--Chuck


Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> Is it a dbm problem or is the following coincidental? 
> 
> main()
> {
> 	DBM *dbp;
> 	dbp = dbm_open("xxx", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0644);
> 	if (dbp == NULL) perror("dbm_open");
> }
> yields:
> dbm_open: Permission denied
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg01391.html reported
> 
>>robot/rules-dbm.....Can't open test-436657: Permission denied at
>>
> robot/rules-dbm.t line 9
> 
> 
> Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
> Windows 98 SE Ver 4.10 build 67766446  A 
> 
> Cygwin DLL version info:
>         DLL version: 1.3.5
>         DLL epoch: 19
> 
> Pierre
> 
> *********
> From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de> 
> To: "Arkadi Gelfond" <arkadig at usa dot net> 
> Cc: "Gerrit P. Haase" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, cpan-testers at cpan dot
> org 
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:28:33 +0100 
> 
> Hallo Arkadi,
> 
> 2001-11-21 16:25:01, du schriebst:
> 
> 
>>Gerrit,
>>    sorry, for not providing enough details:
>>
> 
>>Perl 5.6.1 the distribution that currently comes with Cygwin.
>>
> 
> 5.6.1-1 or 5.6.1-2?
> 
> 
>>After sending mail to this list I noticed the new Cygwin version:
>>cygwin-1.3.5-3, so I installed it and then tried to install LWP again and
>>failed again.
>>
> 
>>'Works for me' - is it under W98?
>>
> 
> No, NT4.0 Sp6a
> 
> Why should it fail on Win98?  There are no permissions which can be denied?
> I have no idea.  Unfortunately my wife has accidently clobbered my Win98
> installation with a Linux evaluation CD last weekend, now she is running
> Win2K on her box;)
> 
> Gerrit
> 
> 
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