Hi Rainer, > 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 I install those because they are the part of gnu-dbm project. If I install them too the user will be able to choose which libraries he would use - the originals or new ones (gdbm compatible). However I agree that this part is debatable.
> in /usr/include where it can be easily found. That's right however the directory /usr/include/gdbm/ can imho be easily found too. > 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 > Thank you and enjoy the day, Martina
