From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Apr 8 09:28:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA07454 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from platinum.com (gateway.platinum.com [206.214.170.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA07449 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gateway.platinum.com id <18536>; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 11:29:57 -0500 From: "Brent J. Nordquist" Subject: Re: Port of gdbm 1.7.3 to FreeBSD uploaded To: soren@ambiguity.i-2.com Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 11:16:38 -0500 Cc: ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604081100.LAA01051@ambiguity.i-2.com> from "Soren Dayton" at Apr 8, 96 06:00:37 am Reply-to: nordquist@platinum.com (Brent J. Nordquist) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <96Apr8.112957cdt.18536@gateway.platinum.com> Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk | "Brent J. Nordquist" said: | | >I placed in in ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/gdbm-1.7.3.tar.gz. | >This was an extremely straightforward port; no work Makefile or code | >changes were required. I just had to develop the top-level Makefile | >and the package files. | > | >There was only one issue of concern: FreeBSD 2.1 appears to ship with | >a /usr/include/ndbm.h. However, a man -k on dbm and ndbm reveals | >nothing of interest, and there don't appear to be any dbm libraries. | >Does FreeBSD have dbm/ndbm support? | | checking out that include file seems to indicate that it uses db | to imitate ndbm. | | Soren Thanks for that info! So I guess someone has to decide whether it would be better to have gdbm provide that emulation. -- Brent J. Nordquist PLATINUM technology, inc. (ViaTech Development Lab) nordquist@platinum.com 2600 Eagan Woods Dr., Suite 410, Eagan, MN 55121-1152 Voice +1 612 688-3033 If you can keep your head when all about you are Vmail +1 708 620-5116 losing theirs, you clearly don't understand the (ext. 7806) situation.