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<!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 --enable-libgdbm-compat</userinput></screen>
<variablelist>
<title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
<varlistentry>
<term><envar>--enable-libgdbm-compat</envar></term>
<listitem>
<para>This switch enables the libgdbm compatibility library to be
built, as some packages outside of LFS may require the older DBM
routines it provides.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results, issue:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</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>
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