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Re: Linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fri Oct 13 18:37:30 1995 )

Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 18:20:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dave Wallace <dwallace@ssnet.com>
In-reply-to: <9510120531.AA04244@benson.declab.usu.edu>
To: coldstuff@pippin.ece.usu.edu



On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, 869683 Gillespie Brandon James wrote:

> < Anyone have any luck running COLDX under Linux? It compiles fine after I 
> < tell it to link to the gdbm library
> 
> Odd, linux should have gdbm compiled/installed as ndbm (which cold assumes
> exists, being a standard unix lib)...

I have the gdbm library and a header file <ndbm.h> that apparently allows 
compatibility.

> 
> < but it fails the test source with parse errors and omits some of the tests.
> 
> Damn, I havn't run regression tests for ages :)  I doubt the test db is in
> the correct format, I'll have to check it out.  The only db I can mostly
> guarantee will compile with 0.2-[45] is ColdCore-2.1.  The main reason
> for this is i'm evolving the dump format as well as language syntax.

I got the new db and things are much better, thanks :)