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From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: matt@gushee.net
Cc: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] DBM in OCaml 3.07
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:39:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031015103929E.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031015012445.GD26799@swordfish>

From: Matt Gushee <matt@gushee.net>

> > There seems to be another problem with gdbm-ndbm.h being ignored if
> > there is no gdbm_compat library, which might have to be fixed, but I'm
> > no gdbm exert. gdbm-ndbm.h was not checked on ocaml 3.06, but it has
> > lower priority than ndbm.h anyway.
> 
> Ah, but it effectively has a *higher* priority in the configure script:
> 
>   for dir in /usr/include /usr/include/db1 /usr/include/gdbm; do
>     if test -f $dir/ndbm.h; then
>       ....
        break
>     fi
>     if test -f $dir/gdbm-ndbm.h; then
>       ....
        break
>     fi
>   done

The break is supposed to get out of the loop, so if ndbm.h is in the
same directory, or a previous directory, it has priority.
This is a bit confusing, as if ndbm.h is in /usr/include/db1 and
gdbm-ndbm.h is in /usr/include, then gdbm-ndbm.h will be selected.
Is it your case?

> And maybe it would be useful to add a -dbm-includes option to the
> configure script, to help people work around this sort of situation. I
> suspect I'm not the only person with more than one DBM library.

Probably a good idea indeed.

         Jacques

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-15  1:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-15  0:13 Matt Gushee
2003-10-15  0:40 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-10-15  1:24   ` Matt Gushee
2003-10-15  1:39     ` Jacques Garrigue [this message]
2003-10-15  2:24       ` Matt Gushee

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