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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.  It is a library
    of database functions that use extensible hashing and works similar to the
    standard UNIX dbm.  The library provides primitives for storing key/data
    pairs, searching and retrieving the data by its key and deleting a key
    along with its data. </para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&gdbm-fin-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&gdbm-fin-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of GDBM</title>
<!--
    <para>First, fix an issue first identified by gcc-10:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -r -i '/^char.*parseopt_program_(doc|args)/d' src/parseopt.c</userinput></screen>
-->
    <para>Prepare GDBM for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --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 building the libgdbm compatibility library.
          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 -k check</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      The gdbmtool tests are known to fail with some DejaGNU
      <literal>ERROR</literal> messages.  In the summary it's
      shown as one unresolved testcase.
    </para>

    <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 programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>gdbm_dump, gdbm_load, and gdbmtool</seg>
        <seg>libgdbm.so and libgdbm_compat.so</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gdbm_dump">
        <term><command>gdbm_dump</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Dumps a GDBM database to a file</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gdbm gdbm_dump">
            <primary sortas="b-gdbm_dump">gdbm_dump</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gdbm_load">
        <term><command>gdbm_load</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Recreates a GDBM database from a dump file</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gdbm gdbm_load">
            <primary sortas="b-gdbm_load">gdbm_load</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gdbmtool">
        <term><command>gdbmtool</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Tests and modifies a GDBM database</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gdbm gdbmtool">
            <primary sortas="b-gdbmtool">gdbmtool</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <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>

      <varlistentry id="libgdbm_compat">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgdbm_compat</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Compatibility library containing older DBM functions</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-gdbm libgdbm_compat">
            <primary sortas="c-libgdbm_compat">libgdbm_compat</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>