Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!mtunx!mtuxo!mtgzz!drutx!druco!cac From: cac@druco.ATT.COM (Curtis Conkey) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: problem with spacewar Message-ID: <2876@druco.ATT.COM> Date: 3 Jun 88 15:03:15 GMT References: <2718@juniper.UUCP> Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO Lines: 16 in article <2718@juniper.UUCP>, johnk@juniper.UUCP (John Knutson) says: > Posted: Wed Jun 1 19:12:47 1988 > > I tried compiling spacewar, and with a few modifications, everything compiled. > then when make started trying to link things together, it tried to use a lib > called dbm. the modifications i had made (to this supposedly sysV compatible > program) were to change the including so that it was the local version of > dbm.h and not the system version. I don't know why it was assumed that sysV > has this dbm stuff whatever it is, or even if sysV is supposed to have it, > but if anyone knows how i can get this stuff compiled somehow, i would > appreciate it... thanks > -- I had the same experience on my SYstem V system. - What is libdbm.a ? Curtis Conkey inhp4!druco!cac