Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

It's a part of Perl, and the way I explained it, Perl's makefile simply 
picks up the new DB_File. No changes to BUILD, only in PRE_BUILD to 
unpack the new DB_File, and in DETAILS to mention DB_File as SOURCE2.

Eric Sandall wrote:

> Sergey A. Lipnevich said:
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> > When I was installing db 4.1 myself, I ran into Perl's problem. I didn't
> > know about the -D things, so what I did was (in PRE_BUILD): 1) rm -fr
> > <DB_File source dir> from Perl's source; 2) untar the latest DB_File
> > instead, into the directory by the same name. For this to work properly,
> > DB_File source has to be mentioned in DETAILS, of course. This is
> > pretty  good solution because everything else stays the same, and
> > additional  code is very small.
> >    
>
> So, DB_File has to be installed before perl?  Or is it part of perl?
>
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle
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