Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!mephisto!mcnc!uvaarpa!mmdf From: gaspar@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Al Gaspar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: perl w/GNU gdbm? Message-ID: <1990Aug21.172147.20320@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> Date: 21 Aug 90 17:21:47 GMT Sender: mmdf@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Uvaarpa Mail System) Reply-To: gaspar@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 Some further information on using gdbm with perl. Gdbm requires alloca, which on my system (Unisys 5000/95 running SVR3) is available in the libPW.a library. Unfortunately this also defined fatal, which conflicted with fatal in util.o of perl. I finally took a public domain version of alloca (Doug Gwynn's), changed its internal fatal() to be fatal_x(), and added it directly to libgdbm.a. All ten of the dbm tests in op.dbm run ok. Cheers-- Al -- Al Gaspar USAMC SIMA, ATTN: AMXSI-TTC, Box 1578, St. Louis, MO 63188-1578 COMMERCIAL: (314) 331-4354 AUTOVON: 555-4354 uunet.uu.net!stl-08sima.army.mil!gaspar