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Re: glibc-2.0.95 and ndbm.h?



Hello,

> Hi,
> 
> during recompilation of all RedHat packages some failed because no ndbm.h
> get's installed. Is this the desired behaviour? Since libndbm gets
> installed as a link to libdb2 in db2/Makefile, wouldn't it be useful to
> install ndbm.h too? I have verified that installation of db/ndbm.h in
> /usr/include solves the compilation problems.
> What is the glibc policy here? Correct the package or correct the ndbm
> based packages?

Uli told me, that the problem is the following:
#include <db.h>
#include <ndbm.h>

You couldn't inlcude both, and he waits for a solution from the
authors.

But I think, it is not a good idea to install ndbm comapt links.
The libdb ndbm compat mode is not 100% compatible. I had make
this bad experince with my ypserv package. 

I don't know, how many source is there, which only works with
ndbm. I only know sendmail, who has ndbm source, but this also works
with libdb. I think it is easier to rewrite this packages to use libdb
or libgdbm, then to search the problems with db/compat mode.

  Thorsten

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