source: chapter06/gdbm.xml@ 03b1297

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<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>

    <para>Fix a minor installation issue by manually adding GDBM to the
    <command>info</command> table of contents:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">install-info --dir-file=/usr/info/dir /usr/info/gdbm.info</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>
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      <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>

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