[54] in Athena User Interface
Re: librep requires libgdbm, and it's not in the tree
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Thu May 18 17:14:55 2000
Message-Id: <200005182114.RAA09379@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 May 2000 16:55:07 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 17:14:50 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
The primary implication is that people who maintain the same home
directory between Athena and not-quite-Athena platforms will be
screwed in new and interesting ways.
Maybe we don't care. Maybe the subs could be built to check for this,
or to use a different database name.
tibbetts
> > * Hack up C stubs to translate GDBM calls to DB2 or DB3 calls
>
> Assuming there are no implications to making librep-created databases
> different from what they normally are, this sounds like the best
> answer.
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