Message-Id: <200008211528.LAA19517@delorie.com>
From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
Organization: Darmstadt University of Technology
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 19:45:26 +0200
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU dbm 1.8.0 uploaded
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

  This is a port of GNU gdbm 1.8.0 to MSDOS/DJGPP.
  ================================================

    GNU dbm (gdbm) is a library of database functions that use
    extendible hashing and works similar to the standard UNIX dbm
    functions. These routines are provided to a programmer needing
    to create and manipulate a hashed database. gdbm is *NOT* a
    complete database package for an end user.

    You can download the binary, doc and source packages from Simtel.net
    and mirrors as:
       <ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/gdb180b.zip>
       <ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/gdb180d.zip>
       <ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/gdb180s.zip>

  DJGPP specific changes.
  =======================

    The changes to the sources are mostly bug fixes reported by
    users at <bug-gnu-utils AT gnu DOT org> and changes needed to compile
    the packages on plain DOS. Some changes to Makefile.in to
    eliminate the wrong assumptions about paths that it makes.
    I have also replaced the included libtool with the latest
    version (libtool v 1.3.5). This one has better MSDOS support
    and allows to configure and compile with the old Bash 1.14.7.
    All changes I have done against the original GNU distribution
    are documented in the diffs file stored in the djgpp subdir
    of the source package.

  IMPORTANT:
    The binary package will install the products (gdbm.h, libgdbm.a
    and compatibility headers: dbm.h and ndbm.h) in the usual places,
    this means: headers go into the include directory and the library
    goes into the lib directory. This is *DIFFERENT* from the old
    DJGPP port of gdbm (gdbm173b.zip). The old port installed all
    products into the contrib directory. To avoid difficulties, it is
    recomended to deinstall the old port running the command:
      rm -f @manifest\gdbm173b.mft
    from the top directory of your DJGPP installation *BEFORE*
    installing the new binary package.

  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to
  comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.
  Bug reports concerning gdbm must be send <bug-gnu-utils AT gnu DOT org>.


       Guerrero, Juan Manuel <st001906 AT hrz1 DOT hrz DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de>