Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know perl, and am only going on what Ray has been telling > > me. It was my understanding that perl could be made to > > dynamically load it's gdbm part on request and that way perl need > > only recommend or (better) suggest gdbm. Is this not the case? > > A quick test using strace suggests that this is already the case.
Blah. An even quicker ldd reveals this is already not the case. 20:45:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~ $ldd /usr/bin/perl | grep gdbm libgdbm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 (0x40015000) 20:46:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~ $ Until _that_ changes, perl can't not Depend on gdbm. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]