Hi,
It seems the nmh ebuild is getting old and is considered for removal. I'm
sending this to you nmh folks to see if there are any nmh & gentoo users out
there interested in making this not happen.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189519
It appears the particular thing that triggered this is that it's packaged to
require sys-libs/db-1 which, looking at configure.in, is not really true. That
file says:
NMH_CHECK_DBM(,,
NMH_CHECK_DBM(ndbm,,
NMH_CHECK_DBM(dbm,,
NMH_CHECK_DBM(db1,,
NMH_CHECK_DBM(db,,
NMH_CHECK_DBM(gdbm,,
AC_CHECK_LIB(gdbm,gdbm_open,
NMH_CHECK_DBM(gdbm_compat,LIBS="-lgdbm_compat -lgdbm $LIBS",
AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find a library providing
dbm_open()]),-lgdbm),
AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find a library providing dbm_open()]))))))))
Anybody knows what all of these database libs correspond to in terms of gentoo
packages? I've built nmh vs. the gentoo gdbm package and it built fine
(although the only db usage in nmh is slocal, which I don't use, so I cannot
vouch for the correctness of it).
My thinking is to create an nmh-1.2 ebuild, fixing this db stuff, and attach
it to the gentoo bug. Hopefully that's enough to keep it in gentoo.
/Anders
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