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
      You can probably just run the Makefile.PL for GDBM_File, rather than rebuild perl.

        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)