On Solaris w/ Perl 5.00503 I have a Berkeley DB database. The "values" in the database are structures saved with Storable::nfreeze.

I need to move that to Linux running 5.8.0 and a newer version of Berkeley DB.

I moved the file and then run:

   $ db_dump foo.old | db4.0_load foo.new

[download]
But when I try to thaw the data I'm still getting:

Byte order is not compatible at ../../lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into 
+../../lib/auto/Storable/thaw.al) line 358.

[download]
I was able to move another Berkeley DB table without problems (that table's values were plain text).

I suppose I can figure out another way to move the data, but I'm also wondering what I'm doing wrong. Well, for one thing I was not able to easily find the Changelog for Storable to see if there was something broken with nfreeze. And my googling for that error message just turned up suggestions to use nfreeze or nstore (but I'm already using nfreeze).

In reply to Storable: Byte order is not compatible by moseley

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.