GNU gdbm for MPE/iX

This port is a prototype; it is totally unsupported but it seems to work (at least for me ;)

When trying to use the GNU gdbm package that is part of my earlier port of ht://Dig to MPE/iX, I noticed that it did not work properly when used inside my in-progress port of OpenLDAP to MPE/iX. So I decided to pick up a fresh and standalone version at one of the www.gnu.org mirror sites to see if it can be ported more thoroughly.

Here is a copy of the GNU gdbm distribution that I picked from one of the GNU mirrors sites...

• gdbm-1.7.3.tar.gz (~ 81 KB)

Using the texi2html translator I extracted the following docs from the above package...

• gdbm.html (toc + chapters)
• gd-doc.tar.Z (~ 12KB)

Porting GNU gdbm to MPE/iX was fairly easy as it basically uses GNU gcc compiler, which is available on MPE/iX for quite a long time now, thanks to Mark Klein's port. Using my recent prototype of GNU autoconf for MPE/iX it wasn't even neccessary to manually adjust the configure script as advised in Mark Bixby's MPE/iX Porting Guide. Here are the diffs...

• changes to GNU gdbm for MPE/iX (GNU diff -u output, ready for GNU patch)

Here is a package of the files that have been added to allow GNU gdbmbuild on MPE/iX...

• gd-mpe.tar.Z (~ 33 KB)

And here you can see how to run your own build with above components...

• brief summary or detailed session trace

If you do not want to run your own build, you may download the resulting binaries here...

• gd-bin.tar.Z (~ 49 KB)

As always, feedback welcome and best-effort help available (but I'm a gdbm beginner).