Howdy,

I'm having some troubles installing Berkeley DB on an AIX 5.2 machine. Here this is:

$ oslevel
5.2.0.0
$ perl -v

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And I'm using BerkeleyDB v4.3. In building the module I get:

$ make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /db2blast/Paul/perl5.8.7/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Comma
+nd::MM" "-
e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/btree........ok
t/cds..........ok
t/db-3.0.......ok
t/db-3.1.......ok
t/db-3.2.......ok
t/db-3.3.......ok
t/destroy......ok
t/encrypt......NOK 7Can't call method "db_put" on an undefined value a
+t t/encryp
t.t line 112.
t/encrypt......dubious
        Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
DIED. FAILED tests 7-80
        Failed 74/80 tests, 7.50% okay
t/env..........ok
t/examples.....ok
t/examples3....ok
t/filter.......ok
t/hash.........ok
t/join.........ok
t/mldbm........Argument "2.121_04" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at 
+t/mldbm.t
line 17.
skipped
        all skipped: MLDBM is not installed on this system.
t/pod..........ok
t/queue........ok
t/recno........ok
t/strict.......ok
t/subdb........ok
t/txn..........ok
t/unknown......ok
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
t/encrypt.t    2   512    80  146 182.50%  7-80
1 test skipped.
Failed 1/22 test scripts, 95.45% okay. 74/1500 subtests failed, 95.07%
+ okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255

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I'm completely unsure what's going on -- any suggestions?

In reply to Building BerkeleyDB on AIX by Anonymous Monk

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