I'm using glibc 2.0.7 and the make died in the dbm/src directory. The problem is that it can't find compat.h. In 2.0.7 there is no such file but there is the following lines in db.h #ifdef __DBINTERFACE_PRIVATE #include <compat.h> #endif I e-mailed the glibc people and they said that __DBINTERFACE should not get set since it is just a private thing. Therefore I think it is a bug.

Setting all current Open/Normal to M4.

guessing that this is for briano

i guess I should actually reassign it

I ran into the same sort of thing on SunOS 4.1.3_U1. I'm looking into it.

moving to m5

This should no longer be a problem. I've added a check in configure for compat.h, so platforms that don't have it won't try to include it in dbm. In any case, I think the code this bug applied to is no longer there.