On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 01:49:29PM +0100, Leon Timmermans wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Shmuel Fomberg <shmuelfomb...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> > Interestingly, most of the fails come from Solaris. but a few from Linux > > too. > > Any idea why the module is missing? > > The *DB_File modules aren't build when their library (in this case, > libdb aka Berkeley DB) isn't present on the system. Only SDBM_File is > guaranteed to be present because it's bundled with perl. > > I think all of them are prime targets for dual-living, which might > alleviate some of these issues (though external dependencies are > always tricky). DB_File is dual life already (upstream CPAN) Certainly the other 3 (not SDBM_File) are obvious victims to dual life. SDBM_File still has a parallel makefile issue that it would be nice to nail first. Someone previously seemed interested in having this happen, but inexplicably vanished when we said "go for it!" Nicholas Clark
