From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:55:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: In some Linux distributions the libndbm is broken
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In some Linux distributions the libndbm is broken
(no null key support), therefore link with libgdbm
(if available), since it has a working ndbm emulation,
from Jonathan Stowe.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@10984
---

diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 5491ac0..0cf83a8 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -386,6 +386,7 @@ ext/MIME/Base64/t/unicode.t	See whether MIME::Base64 works
 ext/NDBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl	Hint for NDBM_File for named architecture
 ext/NDBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl	Hint for NDBM_File for named architecture
 ext/NDBM_File/hints/dynixptx.pl	Hint for NDBM_File for named architecture
+ext/NDBM_File/hints/linux.pl	Hint for NDBM_File for named architecture
 ext/NDBM_File/hints/sco.pl	Hint for NDBM_File for named architecture
 ext/NDBM_File/hints/solaris.pl	Hint for NDBM_File for named architecture
 ext/NDBM_File/hints/svr4.pl	Hint for NDBM_File for named architecture
diff --git a/ext/NDBM_File/hints/linux.pl b/ext/NDBM_File/hints/linux.pl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..47f9d2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/NDBM_File/hints/linux.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Some distributions have both gdbm and ndbm
+# Prefer gdbm to avoid the broken ndbm in some distributions
+# (no null key support)
+# Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
+use Config;
+$self->{LIBS} = ['-lgdbm'] if $Config{libs} =~ /\b-lgdbm\b/;