bsdpan-DB_File - missing origin

Lee Dilkie lee at dilkie.com
Sat Apr 17 14:21:16 PDT 2004


>If you do 
>
>    perl -MCPAN -e shell
>    install DB_File
>
>then you get that port.

Okay, that is good to know. But I, personally, never did this so it must have been done by one of the ports I have installed. I just wonder which one, or rather, how one goes about discovering which one. Any ideas?

>
>Note that the Berkeley-DB library (from the db41 port) and the Perl
>interface thereto (DB_File) are two different things.
>

I installed the db41 but after that was done, i went into the perl subdir, fixed up config.in and ran the perl installation. I had done that some time ago for graphdefang ( it's not from ports but it needed DB_File). I would think they have the same api, but what do I know of perl ;)

>Kai
>
>PS: Is "thereto" correct in this context?  It seemed like a cool way
>    to make the sentence shorter ;-)

looks correct to me, but I'm an engineer and my language skills (outside programming languages) aren't the greatest. ;)

thanks for the help. 

-lee



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