sybperl-l Archive

From: DR Thiede <David dot Thiede at pnl dot gov>
Subject: Re: Sybperl on Digital Unix
Date: Sep 5 1997 4:08PM

Thanks Michael!

This explains why my cludge fix that I described sometime ago worked 
(sortof). I had been removing the *.so files from the sybase directory 
when building sybperl and sticking them back afterword. That would force 
the DBlib.so file to include the *.a version of the file and produce a 
much bigger shared library. Removing the -ldb is much more elegant and 
produces a MUCH smaller DBlib.so file. All of the tests seem to work 
properly and a sampling of my scripts also work.

The question that I have is: Does the removal of -ldb from config.sh 
remove any functionality from perl or is it harmless?

Dave Thiede

> 
> 
> >   Linker and Libraries:
> >     ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
> >     libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/shlib /shlib /lib /usr/lib 
/usr/ccs/lib
> >     libs=-ldbm -ldb -lm
> 		^^^^^^
> 		here's the culprit (or at least one of them!)
> 
> You have berkeley DB installed on your system, and perl 
(unfortunately,
> and incorrectly) links -ldb to the main perl executable, instead of
> linking it only to DB_File.so.
> 
> I say unforntunately, because both Berkeley DB and Sybase DB library
> have a function called dbopen().
> 
> Solution:
> 	1. Edit the Berkeley DB sources, change dbopen() to DBopen() 
> 	(for example), rebuild berkeley DB, rebuild perl, rebuild
> 	sybperl.
> 
> 	2. Edit perl's config.sh and remove all occurances of -ldb.
> 	Regenerate the Makefile's (run ./Configure -S)
> 	Rebuild perl, rebuild sybperl.
> 
> Michael
> -- 
> Michael Peppler       -||-  Data Migrations Inc.
> mpeppler@datamig.com  -||-  http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler