to David Harris for spotting the underlying problem, contributing
the updates to the documentation and writing DB_File::Lock (available
on CPAN).
+
+1.73 31st May 2000
+
+ * Added support in version.c for building with threaded Perl.
+
+ * Berkeley DB 3.1 has reenabled support for null keys. The test
+ harness has been updated to reflect this.
+
+1.74 10th December 2000
+
+ * A "close" call in DB_File.xs needed parenthesised to stop win32 from
+ thinking it was one of its macros.
+
+ * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.1 file format changes.
+
+ * DB_File.pm & the test hasness now use the warnings pragma (when
+ available).
+
+ * Included Perl core patch 7703 -- size argument for hash_cb is different
+ for Berkeley DB 3.x
+
+ * Included Perl core patch 7801 -- Give __getBerkeleyDBInfo the ANSI C
+ treatment.
+
+ * @a = () produced the warning 'Argument "" isn't numeric in entersub'
+ This has been fixed. Thanks to Edward Avis for spotting this bug.
+
+ * Added note about building under Linux. Included patches.
+
+ * Included Perl core patch 8068 -- fix for bug 20001013.009
+ When run with warnings enabled "$hash{XX} = undef " produced an
+ "Uninitialized value" warning. This has been fixed.
+
+1.75 17th December 2000
+
+ * Fixed perl core patch 7703
+
+ * Added suppport to allow DB_File to be built with Berkeley DB 3.2 --
+ btree_compare, btree_prefix and hash_cb needed to be changed.
+
+ * Updated dbinfo to support Berkeley DB 3.2 file format changes.
+
+
+1.76 15th January 2001
+
+ * Added instructions for using LD_PRELOAD to get Berkeley DB 2.x to work
+ with DB_File on Linux. Thanks to Norbert Bollow for sending details of
+ this approach.
+
+
+1.77 26th April 2001
+
+ * AIX is reported to need -lpthreads, so Makefile.PL now checks for AIX and
+ adds it to the link options.
+
+ * Minor documentation updates.
+
+ * Merged Core patch 9176
+
+ * Added a patch from Edward Avis that adds support for splice with
+ recno databases.
+
+ * Modified Makefile.PL to only enable the warnings pragma if using perl
+ 5.6.1 or better.