Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 11:16:38 -0500 From: "Brent J. Nordquist" <nordquist@platinum.com> To: soren@ambiguity.i-2.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port of gdbm 1.7.3 to FreeBSD uploaded Message-ID: <96Apr8.112957cdt.18536@gateway.platinum.com> In-Reply-To: <199604081100.LAA01051@ambiguity.i-2.com> from "Soren Dayton" at Apr 8, 96 06:00:37 am
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| "Brent J. Nordquist" said:
|
| >I placed in in ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/gdbm-1.7.3.tar.gz.
| >This was an extremely straightforward port; no work Makefile or code
| >changes were required. I just had to develop the top-level Makefile
| >and the package files.
| >
| >There was only one issue of concern: FreeBSD 2.1 appears to ship with
| >a /usr/include/ndbm.h. However, a man -k on dbm and ndbm reveals
| >nothing of interest, and there don't appear to be any dbm libraries.
| >Does FreeBSD have dbm/ndbm support?
|
| checking out that include file seems to indicate that it uses db
| to imitate ndbm.
|
| Soren
Thanks for that info! So I guess someone has to decide whether it
would be better to have gdbm provide that emulation.
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