From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-23T20:09:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug report: ruby-1.8.0p3 fails to compile under FreeBSD-4.7

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:40:31PM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Brian Candler wrote:
> > On this box, DBM is defined in /usr/include/ndbm.h:
> > 
> > typedef DB DBM;
> > 
> > It in turn includes <db.h>, which defines DB and DBT.
> > 
> > Editing the ext/dbm/Makefile manually, so that it has -DDBM_HDR="<ndbm.h>",
> > allows the compile to continue.
> 
> Does this patch work?

Yes: it happily compiles from start to end, and dbm.so is created. Many
thanks.

I wasn't aware of this module before, since it's not mentioned in the
Pickaxe. Very cool. I tested it by making a small dbm file in 1.6.8 and
reading it in 1.8.0p3, and it seems fine.

Incidentally, I note there is a method DBM#to_hash. This sets a precedent
for having Array#to_hash as discussed previously :-)

Regards,

Brian.