Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:50:03 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: "David J. MacKenzie" <djm@web.us.uu.net> Cc: <fastresolve-bugs@web.us.uu.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fastresolve 2.8 with DB_File / Berkeley DB3 ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101200049250.554-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101200022590.554-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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just got convert-ip-db to work:
search-n-replace DB_File with BerkeleyDB
and change the tie function to:
tie(%input, "BerkeleyDB::Btree", -Filename => $dbfile)
|| die "$0: Can't read $dbfile: $!\n";
and she works ...
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, David J. MacKenzie wrote:
>
> > You do need to have a perl DB_File module linked against the
> > same version of Berkeley DB that the C program dns-terror
> > is using. At our site, by default DB_File is linked against
> > DB 2.x, but we wanted to access old DB 1.x files from perl
> > also. So we made a DB1_File module by copying the sources
> > to DB_File and renaming the files and doing a search and
> > replace. And of course we compile and link it against the
> > desired version of DB. You could do the same to make a DB3_File
> > module.
> >
> > It is kind of odd that perl doesn't come with this ability.
>
> Hadn't thought of that, but with your suggestions, just tried it, and am
> getting the same results after makign sure that convert-ip-db to use
> DB3_File ... but I'm guessing that might have to do with header files, as
> when i make it load the proper includes, the DB_File won't even build, as
> its missing defines ...
>
> but, it turns out there is a BerkeleyDB perl interface ... what is the
> chances of moving fastresolve over to that?
>
> NAME
> BerkeleyDB - Perl extension for Berkeley DB version 2 or 3
>
> I just tried a simple search and replace in convert-ip-db, and it results
> in:
>
> thelab# convert-ip-db
> Can't locate auto/BerkeleyDB/TIEHASH.al in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/libdata/perl/5.6.0/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 .) at /usr/local/bin/convert-ip-db line 48
>
> so it obviously doesn't work "out of the box" ...
>
>
> Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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