Compile perl with GDBM_File?

[Ryan]

My version of Perl, 5.8.1, doesn't seem to have GDBM_File installed,
even though GDBM_File can only be retrieved from CPAN by downloading
perl 5.8.0 or perl 5.8.1. I believe it is not installed, though GDBM
is installed on my machine and was available during the compile. I'm
wondering if there are specific flags I need to pass to configure.gnu
to make sure GDBM support is compiled in. Anyone know?

Thanks in advance,

Ryan

 

[Mike Hunter]

My version of Perl, 5.8.1, doesn't seem to have GDBM_File installed,
even though GDBM_File can only be retrieved from CPAN by downloading
perl 5.8.0 or perl 5.8.1. I believe it is not installed, though GDBM
is installed on my machine and was available during the compile. I'm
wondering if there are specific flags I need to pass to configure.gnu
to make sure GDBM support is compiled in. Anyone know?

I went through a lot of crap with this also. If you're using freebsd, export
WITH_GDBM when you do a make in /usr/ports.

Why does freebsd exclude this by default? Is it some kind of licensing
problem?

Mike