RE: perl-5.6.1 DB_file support

["Paul Marquess" <Paul_Marquess at Yahoo dot co dot uk>]

From: Reini Urban [mailto:rurban@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at]

thanks for the feedback.

...
>
> And the DB_File patch for perl, tested with db-3.2.3f:
> One could also copy the three db headers to /usr/include, but the
> installer leaves them in /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.2/include
>
>
> 2001-01-08 02:40:33 rurban
>   * support latest BerkeleyDB.3.2 paths
>
> --- perl-5.6.1-1/ext/DB_File/Makefile.PL~	Mon Oct 16 09:12:44 2000
> +++ perl-5.6.1-1/ext/DB_File/Makefile.PL	Mon Jan  8 03:38:00 2001
> @@ -10,14 +10,13 @@
>
>  WriteMakefile(
>  	NAME 		=> 'DB_File',
> -	LIBS 		=> ["-L/usr/local/lib $LIB"],
> +	LIBS 		=> ["-L/usr/local/lib
> -L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.2/lib $LIB"],
>          MAN3PODS        => {},         # Pods will be built by
> installman.
> -	#INC		=> '-I/usr/local/include',
>  	VERSION_FROM	=> 'DB_File.pm',
>  	OBJECT		=> 'version$(OBJ_EXT) DB_File$(OBJ_EXT)',
>  	XSPROTOARG	=> '-noprototypes',
>  	DEFINE		=> $OS2 || "",
> -	INC => ($^O eq "MacOS" ? "-i ::::db:include" : "")
> +	INC => ($^O eq "MacOS" ? "-i ::::db:include" :
> "-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.2/include")
>  	);
>
>  sub MY::postamble {
> --- perl-5.6.1-1/ext/DB_File/hints/cygwin.pl~	Mon Jan  8 03:54:56 2001
> +++ perl-5.6.1-1/ext/DB_File/hints/cygwin.pl	Mon Jan  8 03:51:02 2001
> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> +# latest BerkeleyDB.3.2 from
> +$self->{LIBS} = ['-ldb -L/usr/local/lib
> -L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.2/lib'];

Should that not be

 $self->{LIBS} = ['-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.2/lib -ldb']

i.e. the -L before the -l

> +$self->{INC} => ["-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.2/include"];

Could you try with only the hints/cygwin.pl change? I don't think you should
need the change to Makefile.PL as well.

Hmmm, thinking about this a bit more, I don't think that either
hints/cygwin.pl or Makefile.PL file is the correct place for this change.
The /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.x.y directory prefix is the default location for
installing recent versions of Berkeley DB on all unix-like architectures.
Configure needs to be changed to get it to know about
/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.x.y/lib and /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.x.y/include. Rather
than hard-wiring paths with version numbers (like /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.2)
it would be better if Configure could detect what was there itself. If I get
the time, I'll have a look at it.

Regarding the DB_File tests that are failing for you. Berkeley DB 3.2 isn't
officially released yet. The pre-release version I have (which is more
recent than yours) has known problems that make DB_File fail some tests. I
don't intend digging for problems at my end until the Sleepycat folk have a
stable 3.2 for me to play with.

Paul


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