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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2014-09-24 22:07:20 -0400
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2014-09-29 08:23:00 +0200
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Mention that freeware gdbm might be obsolete.
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@@ -417,6 +417,10 @@ case "$ldflags" in
*) ldflags="$ldflags -Wl,-woff,84" ;;
esac
+# IRIX freeware kits sometimes have only o32 libraries for gdbm.
+# You can try Configure ... -Dlibswanted='m' -Dnoextensions='GDBM_File'
+# since the libm seems to be pretty much the only really needed library.
+
# Irix 6.5.6 seems to have a broken header <sys/mode.h>
# don't include that (it doesn't contain S_IFMT, S_IFREG, et al)