2 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 See the end of file for copying conditions.
7 This file contains brief information about configuring, testing
8 and using GNU dbm. It is *not* intended as a replacement
9 for the documentation, instead it is provided as a brief reference
10 only. The complete documentation is available in doc/ subdirectory.
11 To read the manpage without installing the package use `man
12 doc/gdbm.3'. To read texinfo documentation without installing the
13 package, run `info -f doc/gdbm.info'. After the package is installed
14 the documentation can be accessed by running `man gdbm' and
19 GNU dbm is a set of database routines that use extendible hashing and
20 works similar to the standard UNIX dbm routines. The library provides
21 also an optional compatibility layer for UNIX-like dbm and ndbm calls.
25 a) configure [PARAMETERS]
28 For a list of generic PARAMETERS, see the file INCLUDE. The gdbm-specific
31 ** --enable-memory-mapped-io
33 Enable the use of mmap(2) for I/O optimizations. This is the default,
34 if mmap is available. To disable mmap, use --disable-memory-mapped-io.
36 ** --enable-libgdbm-compat
38 Build and install libgdbm_compat, a compatibility layer which provides
39 UNIX-like dbm and ndbm interfaces.
41 ** --enable-gdbm-export
43 Build and install gdbmexport with the specified gdbm 1.8 library.
45 ** --with-gdbm183-library=LIB
47 Build gdbmexport with specified (static) library. LIB must be
48 a loader argument valid for the use with cc(1), e.g.: -lgdbm-1.8.
50 ** --gdbm183-libdir=DIR
52 Build gdbmexport with the gdbm library from the specified directory.
54 ** --gdbm183-includedir=DIR
56 Build gdbmexport with gdbm.h from the specified directory.
64 Please report bugs to <bug-gdbm@gnu.org>
66 * Documentation, updates etc.
68 For the latest updates, visit <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm>,
70 In particular, a copy of GDBM documentation in various formats is
71 available online at <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/manual>.
73 Latest versions of GDBM can be downloaded from anonymous
74 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdbm.
76 To track the development, visit
77 <http://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/projects/gdbm>.
80 * Copyright information:
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