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On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 10:38:55PM -0700, Randy J Ray wrote:
> This is against bleedperl 11467.
>
> On Red Hat-based systems, we've long configured Perl to not natively link in
> any of the DBM-ish libraries directly, instead opting to build those
> extensions as purely-dynamic.
>
> With the current bleadperl, I get the following when building DB_File:
>
> cc -c -D_REENTRANT -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.77\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.77\" -fpic -I../.. DB_File.c
> DB_File.xs:129: parse error
> make[1]: *** [DB_File.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/users/rjray/perl/ext/DB_File'
> make: *** [lib/auto/DB_File/DB_File.so] Error 2
>
> Line 129 reads:
>
> #if DB_VERSION_MAJOR_CFG < 2
>
> It seems that DB_VERSION_MAJOR_CFG is set in config.h, from the line in
> config_h.SH:
>
> #define DB_VERSION_MAJOR_CFG $db_version_major /**/
>
> It looks like the configuration process is trying to derive this from tests
> run on the libdb.so, which isn't available in this build case. I *can*,
You could just try wrapping the #if DB_VERSION_MAJOR_CFG ... #endif inside
#ifdef DB_VERSION_MAJOR_CFG ... #endif.
> however, build DB_File from CPAN, so this should only be a minor stumble. I'm
> just not certain how to address this (whether in Configure, DB_File.xs or the
> Makefile.PL for DB_File).
>
> Randy
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