On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > * James Troup (Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 07:47:21PM +0100) > > > > 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. > > What's the greater evil? hAving the gdbm package and the dependency, or > linking in libgdbm statically?
In theory, perl can be built entirely without gdbm support, and libperl-gdbm made as separate package - with appropriate dependencies. I imagine that this is the proposed solution. Requiring gdbm is annoying, but doesn't sound release-critical to me. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
