(Retracted by #10375.)

IRIX hints patch from Merijn Broeren.

TODO: (this and the earlier Linux hints patch) should be solved
at Configure level.  Merijn: -ldb should not be used on any platform
for perl, just when linking DBFile itself. Trying to be helpful here
is counterproductive.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@10333

diff --git a/hints/irix_6.sh b/hints/irix_6.sh
index 6f4ca17..bac68c3 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/irix_6.sh
+++ b/hints/irix_6.sh
@@ -282,6 +282,20 @@ set `echo X "$libswanted "|sed -e 's/ sun / /' -e 's/ crypt / /' -e 's/ bsd / /'
 shift
 libswanted="$*"
 
+#
+# XXX -- This isn't right, since you still don't want perl itself
+# linked with -ldb, even if you *do* build the DB_File extension.
+# Linking perl with -ldb will prevent you from building the
+# Sybase::DBlib extension, due to a conflict between dbopen() in both
+# libdb.so and libsybdb.so.
+#
+case "$i_db" in
+undef)
+    set `echo X "$libswanted "|sed -e 's/ db / /'`
+    shift
+    libswanted="$*" ;;
+esac
+
 cat > UU/usethreads.cbu <<'EOCBU'
 # This script UU/usethreads.cbu will get 'called-back' by Configure 
 # after it has prompted the user for whether to use threads.