From:	Peter Prymmer	Date:	Tue Aug  1 05:26:01 2006
Subject:	Re: DB_File

Was your Berkeley DB built with a dynamically loadable shared 
object library? If so, do you have the location of libdb.so 
(or libdb.dll) in your LIBPATH environment variable?

Do you need perl threads?  If not can you omit the -Dusethreads
from the perl sh Configure command line?

Peter Prymmer

mohammad yaseen <akyaseen@yahoo.com> wrote on 08/01/2006 06:59:20 AM:

> I'm using perl-5.8.7 on z/OS.
> Perl builds DB_File present in ext directory if it finds ldb on the 
system.
> As it was not present on my system, i downloaded latest version of 
Berkeley DB
> from sleepycat  and installed it in my home directory.
> 
> Right now i'm using these configure options below as mentioned in the 
INSTALL 
> file so that it will locate my Berkley DB installation
> 
> sh Configure -de -Dmake=gmake -Dlocincpth="/u/isldev1/BDB/include 
> /usr/local/include" -Dloclibpth="/u/isldev1/BDB/lib /usr/l
> ocal/lib" -Dprefix=$INSTALLDIR -Dusedl -Dusethreads
> 
> But after this also it is not able to build the DB_File(ext/DB_File) 
module 
> which comes with Perl base source code.
> 
> Any inputs to resolve this will be appreciated....