version 5.12.2 now includes GDBM_File as part of the bundle, but I cannot seem to conjure perl correctly to get it to work. First, do you or do you not need to add: 

use GDBM_File;

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I added this and I get: Can't locate GDBM_File.pm in @INC I tried without the use and I got: Undefined subroutine &main::GDBM_READER called at Affinity/test_loaded_gdbm.pl line 44. my environment is a local perl 5.12.2 build under ~/local with the following structure: 
drwxrwxr-x  11 thompson thompson  4096 Dec 27 11:05 ./
drwxr-xr-x  19 thompson thompson 20480 Dec 27 12:51 ../
drwxrwxr-x   2 thompson thompson  4096 Dec 27 11:04 bin/
drwxrwxr-x   4 thompson thompson  4096 Dec 27 10:25 html/
drwxrwxr-x   2 thompson thompson  4096 Dec 23 10:40 include/
drwxrwxr-x   2 thompson thompson  4096 Dec 23 10:40 info/
drwxrwxr-x   3 thompson thompson  4096 Dec 23 13:43 lib/
drwxr-xr-x   4 thompson thompson  4096 Dec 23 09:41 man/
drwxr-xr-x  34 thompson thompson 12288 Dec 27 11:05 perl/
drwxrwxr-x   2 thompson thompson  4096 Jul 20 14:44 scripts/
drwxrwxr-x   3 thompson thompson  4096 Dec 27 11:05 src/

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I find the .pm in: ./perl/ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.pm with the Makefile.PL and stuff to build it.

Is there, perhaps a separate step to add this?

Please answer here or email to thompson_at_oclc_dot_org

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In reply to GDBM_File and 5.12.2 by musterion

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