On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 19:18:20 +0000, Marc Haber wrote: > Should I try to shut the compiler up by installing gdbm?
For now, yes. Quite likely perl's dependency on gdbm will be remove in a future version of the perl packages. > |I suppose it's possible that the Debian crowd messed up their Perl > |build and linked statically against libgdbm.a when *they* built Perl > |but that you don't have libgdbm.a installed on your system. > > Is that a bug in the perl package? perl shouldn't depend on gdbm anymore (as that's deprecated); this issue is known by the perl maintainer. > |With Red Hat Linux, for example, the archive library libgdbm.a is in > |the gdbm-devel RPM whereas the libgdbm.so stuff is all that most > |people need and lives in the gdbm RPM. > > So I would install devel/libgdbmg1-dev and be off-hook? Yes. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
