About FAQ 3-13 (perl & db2)

[Horst von Brand]

Michael Deutschmann <michael@talamasca.wkpowerlink.com> said:
> (I hope this is the right place to put questions about the FAQ.  Ulrich 
> is listed as official contact, yet he doesn't seem to like being 
> contacted one-to-one on things like this.)
> 
> I've run into the testsuite failure problem on perl (anydbm wants to use 
> null size keys, which db2 doesn't allow) documented in the FAQ.
> 
> Question is, what do I *do* about it???
> 
> Ignore the failure? Revert to db1 for perl? Exclude the DB_File
> extension?

Ask the Perl people about it, perhaps? They should know if null keys are
reasonable, and how much they are used.

Ask the BerkeleyDB people? The db routines are not native glibc, they
graciously grant glibc the right to include them. They might thell you why
null keys were dropped.
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