My last message couldn't have been more wrong ! Maybe there is a
difference between the perl interface to gdbm and some core perl function
that relies on it ?On 7 Jun 1998, James Troup wrote: > 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] > John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
