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authorGerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>2002-07-11 23:35:41 +0200
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-07-11 19:14:09 +0000
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reinclude ODBM_File & NDBM_File in Cygwin build
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
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@@ -337,6 +337,12 @@ these options, these tests will fail (listing not updated yet):
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