Peter Dennis <petede at sac.sfbay.sun.com> writes:
> It also contains the compatibility library which behaves exactly
> like dbm or ndbm library (including header files so it can fully
> supply those libraries).
I don't see the point of installing those compat headers and library. To
my understanding, they are present only for those platforms that otherwise
lack libdbm and dbm.h/ndbm.h, which isn't true for Solaris. (They are only
installed by the non-default install-compat Makefile target, btw.) To me,
it seems far more natural to only install libgdbm and have gdbm.h in
/usr/include where it can be easily found. I don't know of any other
platform which installs the headers into /usr/include/gdbm, so the library
will not be found easily otherwise.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
