in reply to Can't Install/Use GDBM_File.pm

I'm guessing your system doesn't have gdbm, or doesn't have the header files required to build against it. On Red Hat, there is a gdbm package and a gdbm-devel one. Debian probably has something similar that you need to install before you can build GDBM_File.

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Re^2: Can't Install/Use GDBM_File.pm
by jkeenan1 (Deacon) on Sep 13, 2006 at 21:17 UTC
    Fletch & Perrin:

    I (re-)installed the gdbm files from Ubuntu. I'll try to rebuild Perl tomorrow to see what happens. Thanks for looking into this.

    Jim Keenan
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      You can probably just run the Makefile.PL for GDBM_File, rather than rebuild perl.
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        Yup, if you're in a bind you can go into the ext/GDBM directory in the source tree and run Makefile.PL after the fact. It will get installed under site_perl rather than with the rest of the core modules, but it will work. (And in fact I did just this recently when it was discovered missing; fortunately had the original build directory lying around and it took a couple of minutes and an up2date --install gdbm-devel)

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