Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GDBM incompatibility woes; any experts out there?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:28:17
Message-Id: AANLkTinCWFh5sZKXSWcBBzYj88k9B3tgeocLZ98AXco0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: GDBM incompatibility woes; any experts out there? by walt
1 On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On 08/09/2010 12:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
4 >
5 > > ...
6 >
7 > Now I find that not only
8 >> do the gdbm modules of python and perl reject my files, but so does a C
9 >> program that uses the distributed
10 >> libgdbm.
11 >>
12 >
13 > You didn't say how long ago the problem started, but looking at the
14 > files in sys-libs/gdbm I see nothing newer than March 20. Is your
15 > problem newer than March 20?
16 >
17 > Have you tried running your test program with strace?
18 >
19 >
20 I hadn't done anything with that application in over a year, so I did not
21 have any way to narrow it down.
22 As it happens, I had a sudden rush of brains to the head and read the ewarn
23 message that comes out
24 when you compile gdbm, to the effect that 32-bit systems may have to
25 rebuild, etc, etc.
26
27 As I suspected, it was LFS-related.
28
29 Write it off as a case of RTFLog.
30
31 Now all I have to do is discover why an ewarn wasn't emailed to me -- I
32 thought I had that set up.
33
34 --
35 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD