Re: gdbm, libgdbm3, libgdbm-devel 1.8.3-1

2003-03-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: But I still have to say gcc -o chuck.exe .. -lgdbm_compat -lgdbm right? wrong? IMO: wrong. If there is just the runtime dependency as it seems to be in perl, then there is no need to link against libgdbm. You are correct. As it happens, I was messing around with

Re: gdbm, libgdbm3, libgdbm-devel 1.8.3-1

2003-03-30 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Dr. Charles, >>>Further, it means that any application code that USED the "dbm" or >>>"ndbm" personalities, now needs to link with "-lgdbm_compat -lgdbm" and >>>not just -lgdbm. Most programs don't use the compatibility >>>personalities, and can simply continue to link only against -lgdbm

Re: gdbm, libgdbm3, libgdbm-devel 1.8.3-1

2003-03-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Charles, Am Samstag, 29. März 2003 um 06:47 schriebst du: This means the cyggdbm_devel-3.dll is also in the libgdbm3 package. ^^ _compat Oops.I notice my original message also has a ton of grammatical and spe

Re: gdbm, libgdbm3, libgdbm-devel 1.8.3-1

2003-03-30 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Charles, Am Samstag, 29. März 2003 um 06:47 schriebst du: > This means the cyggdbm_devel-3.dll is also in the libgdbm3 package. ^^ _compat > Further, it means that any application code that USED the "dbm" or > "ndbm" personalities, now ne

[avail for test] gdbm, libgdbm3, libgdbm-devel 1.8.3-1

2003-03-28 Thread Charles Wilson
I've uploaded a new version of gdbm as a test release. This is based on the official 1.8.3 FSF release which has seen some major changes. While existing code should compile against the new library without (many) changes, the API of the library has been reorganized, which means thtat the DLL is