Gerrit P. Haase [Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:35:41 +0000 (23:35 +0200)]
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit@familiehaase.de>
Message-ID: <
311512104521.20020711213541@familiehaase.de>
(plus add a warning about NDBM_File on FAT to README.cygwin)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17489
# $Id: Head.U,v 3.0.1.9 1997/02/28 15:02:09 ram Exp $
#
-# Generated on Fri Jun 21 16:37:53 EET DST 2002 [metaconfig 3.0 PL70]
+# Generated on Thu Jul 11 23:09:00 EET DST 2002 [metaconfig 3.0 PL70]
# (with additional metaconfig patches by perlbug@perl.org)
cat >c1$$ <<EOF
case "$i_ndbm" in
$define)
case "$osname-$use64bitint" in
- cygwin-*|hpux-define)
+ hpux-define)
case "$libs" in
*-lndbm*) avail_ext="$avail_ext $xxx" ;;
esac
case "${i_dbm}${i_rpcsvcdbm}" in
*"${define}"*)
case "$osname-$use64bitint" in
- cygwin-*|hpux-define)
+ hpux-define)
case "$libs" in
*-ldbm*) avail_ext="$avail_ext $xxx" ;;
esac
lib/sdbm.t 2
op/stat.t 9, 20 (.tmp not an executable extension)
+=head2 NDBM_File does not work on FAT filesystems
+
+Do not install NDBM_File on FAT filesystem. It can be built on a FAT
+filesystem, but many ndbm tests will fail. With NTFS, there should be
+no problems either way.
+
=head2 Script Portability on Cygwin
Cygwin does an outstanding job of providing UNIX-like semantics on top of