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Re: 19990901: Getting gdbm to work

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  • Subject: Re: 19990901: Getting gdbm to work
  • Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:12:33 -0600 (MDT)
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Unidata Support wrote:

> >To: address@hidden
> >From: "Arthur A. Person" <address@hidden>
> >Subject: Getting gdbm to work
> >Organization: .
> >Keywords: 199909011924.NAA21519
> 
> Hi...
> 
> I've installed ldm 5.0.8 and am trying to get gdbm to work as it did
> before...  I originally had the library installed under /opt/local but the
> ldm didn't seem to find gdbm.h there... I tried the default /usr/local
> with the same results.  In both cases, the ldm built, but when it ran, it
> gave errors like:

Art,

I also encountered some difficulty with GDBM.  Here's the steps I took to
make it work on solaris 5.6 using csh.

I used the gdbm-1.7.3.tar.gz distribution from ftp ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdbm

% setenv GDBMLIB -lgdbm

-made sure the libgdbm.a was in the path of the  LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variable

-made sure the gdbm.h was in the path of CPPFLAGS, with the -I option, ie

% setenv CPPFLAGS -I/local/gnu/gdbm-1.7.3

rm config.cache   config.log     config.status

% ./configure

% make install

% sudo make install_setuids


Hope this helps,
Robb....

> 
> Sep 01 17:15:15 navier pqact[5281]: ldmdb_open: 2: No such file or 
> directory
> 
> I finally decided to put libgdbm.a in /usr/lib and gdbm.h in /usr/include,
> and then the config files indicate that they were both found, but now when
> I run the ldm, I don't get any error messages but I also don't get any
> data.
> 
> Can you provide any clues as to how I can get this built to run the way
> things did under the previous ldm release?
> 
>                                             Thanks.
> 
>                                               Art.
> Arthur A. Person
> Research Assistant, System Administrator
> Penn State Department of Meteorology
> email:  address@hidden, phone:  814-863-1563
> 

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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