Charles: Fwd: Re: NDBM & ODBM on Cygwin?
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Wed Jul 10 11:41:00 GMT 2002
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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