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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2009-05-23 09:19:35 +0000
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-system-gdbm" role="wrap">
+ <?dbhtml filename="gdbm.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info condition="script">
+ <productname>gdbm</productname>
+ <productnumber>&gdbm-version;</productnumber>
+ <address>&gdbm-url;</address>
+ </sect1info>
+
+ <title>GDBM-&gdbm-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-gdbm">
+ <primary sortas="a-Gdbm">GDBM</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+
+ <para>The GDBM package contains the GNU Database Manager. This is a disk
+ file format database which stores key/data-pairs in single files. The
+ actual data of any record being stored is indexed by a unique key, which can
+ be retrieved in less time than if it was stored in a text file.</para>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>&gdbm-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&gdbm-ch6-du;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of GDBM</title>
+
+ <para>Prepare GDBM for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
+
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>In addition, install the DBM and NDBM compatibility headers, as some
+ packages outside of LFS may look for these older dbm routines:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make install-compat</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="contents-gdbm" role="content">
+ <title>Contents of GDBM</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>libgdbm.{so,a} and libgdbm_compat.{so,a}</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="libgdbm">
+ <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgdbm</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Contains functions to manipulate a hashed database</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-gdbm libgdbm">
+ <primary sortas="c-libgdbm">libgdbm</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>