Last stab at making the sdbm Makefile.PL work. If this doesn't fix the problems on BSDish operating systems then you can just rollback all the recent changes. They're no longer necessary with MM 6.21. However, I would like to figure out what's going on here. Give this a shot and see what happens. --- ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL 2003/11/12 05:00:07 1.1 +++ ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL 2003/11/12 05:00:16 @@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ WriteMakefile( NAME => 'sdbm', # (doesn't matter what the name is here) oh yes it does -# LINKTYPE => 'static', + LINKTYPE => 'static', DEFINE => $define, INC => '-I$(PERL_INC)', # force PERL_INC dir ahead of system -I's - SKIP => [qw(dynamic dynamic_lib dlsyms)], OBJECT => '$(O_FILES)', clean => {'FILES' => 'dbu libsdbm.a dbd dba dbe x-dbu *.dir *.pag'}, H => [qw(tune.h sdbm.h pair.h $(PERL_INC)/config.h)], -- Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ "I might even owe you an apology." "That would be nice." "On the other hand, I thought that I was right." -- "The Courts Of Chaos", Roger ZelaznyThread Next