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From:
Arthur Bergman
Date:
April 28, 2003 08:27
Subject:
Re: [perl #15272] Memoize Test Failures on Mac OS X
Message ID:
E464A2C8-798D-11D7-9BDD-000393CB5BC4@nanisky.com

On måndag, apr 28, 2003, at 15:52 Europe/Stockholm, Jarkko Hietaniemi 
wrote:

>> However more importantly, if GDBM is installed with NDBM compat
>> mode, we never use the NDBM that apple provides, this I guess is
>> a bug.
>
> Please.  Explain.  More.  Slowly.
>
>

Currently it seems like if GDBM is installed with NDBM compat mode we 
pick that NDBM (GDBM/NDBM) instead of the real NDBM.

Which means that when you load GDBM and NDBM you end up loading the 
same library twice through two different bundles and you end up with a 
error.

Arthur
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