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Re: Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?



Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

Charles,

Jarkko removed NDBM_File & ODBM_File from Cygwin builds.
What do you think, should I try to reinclude them?  Is
it doing s.th. useful I'm not aware of?  I cannot remember
the reason why it was removed.  I'll try to figure out
after I know if I should reinclude it.
Someone else needs ODBM_File or NDBM_File in future?

It's a core feature of perl -- so if possible we should supply it. Why did Jarkko remove it? Merely because of the one test failure?

I think the problem with ndbm is that he's using a FAT file system; gdbm's emulation of NDBM doesn't work on FAT -- but it's fine on NTFS.

--Chuck

To be exact: NDBM_File & ODBM_File.  I got all tests passing, just one
test failing with NDBM_File & ODBM_File:
Failed 2/709 test scripts, 99.72% okay. 6/65198 subtests failed, 99.99% okay.
Failed Test                 Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
.../lib/Memoize/t/tie_ndbm.t   13  3328     4    4 100.00%  1-4
op/alarm.t                                 4    2  50.00%  1-2
46 tests and 307 subtests skipped.

where tie_ndbm.t fails with this:
.../lib/Memoize/t/tie_ndbm..............Permission denied at ../lib/Memoize/t/tie_ndbm.t line 51.
dubious
        Test returned status 13 (wstat 3328, 0xd00)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-4


What is wrong with libgdbm as base for NDBM & ODBM, why are they no
longer build for Perl on Cygwin?




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