[GRASS5] ./configure --with-dbm on Debain/Testing

[Hamish]

> > > libgdbm is (unsurprisingly) the GNU version, which includes both
> > > DBM and NDBM functions, as well as a new set of functions (i.e.
> > > the GDBM interface). At least it did, until Debian decided that
> > > they were going to be different to every other Unix system from
> > > the last couple of decades. But that's Debian's problem, not ours.
> > 
> > Again, I think this is a change in the GNU version, which Debian is
> > just shadowing.
> > 
> > libgdbm_compat exists in the latest versions here, for example:
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/gnu/gdbm/
> 
> Oh dear.
> 
> Fortunately, it doesn't appear that anything actually uses dbm.h. The
> checks were originally added because David D Gray implied back in Jan
> 2002 that he wanted to use them for v.in.shape/v.in.mif, but I can't
> find any trace of DBM/NDBM/GDBM actually being used.
> 
> The easiest solution would seem to be to simply remove the checks, and
> set aside the issue of whether to accomodate this particular piece of
> GNU idiocy until it actually has to be addressed.



FYI, this patch was posted to the Debian bug system re. the above bug:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=203834

diff -ru grass-4.99+5.0.0pre4.debian/configure.in grass-4.99+5.0.0pre4/configure.in
--- grass-4.99+5.0.0pre4.debian/configure.in	2003-09-02 18:33:48.000000000 +0200
+++ grass-4.99+5.0.0pre4/configure.in	2003-09-02 18:35:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -501,9 +501,11 @@
 
 LOC_CHECK_LIBS(dbm, dbminit,DBM,$DBMLIBPATH,DBMLIB,,,[
 LOC_CHECK_LIBS(gdbm,dbminit,DBM,$DBMLIBPATH,DBMLIB,,,[
+LOC_CHECK_LIBS(gdbm_compat,dbminit,DBM,$DBMLIBPATH,DBMLIB,,,[
 LOC_CHECK_LIBS(ndbm,dbminit,DBM,$DBMLIBPATH,DBMLIB,,,)
 ])
 ])
+])
 
 fi # $USE_DBM
 



Hamish