TCL-GDBM interface (Unix)

Oh no, not another remake of an existing interface!

Yup, only this one's my first TCL-8.0-native extension, plus has an object-oriented feel the others lack. (Well, the one I looked at, anyway.) I created it when I decided my LifeLines interface was a dead-end and needed something else to manage the indexed files.

As with my other interfaces, the way I build it requires recompiling GDBM with -fPIC in CFLAGS. (This time I kept two versions, libgdbm.a for static linking and libgdbm_pic.a for this kind of use. The NetBSD distribution ships some of its libraries that way.)

My Makefile for hints
The C source
Documentation
Trivial test
NetBSD/i386 binaries: with gdbm-1.7.3 and gdbm-1.8.0 (GNU has made such a horse's ass of the gdbm-1.8.0 build that it's far simpler for me to just provide the binary). Rename the module "gdbm.so" before use.

This was another of those couple-of-days projects - gawd but TCL is beautiful inside (with the possible exception of namespaces, but that may improve)! It's so pleasant to combine it with a well-interfaced library like GDBM, it hardly seems like effort at all. (Being unemployed, I hesitate to refer to it as "work"; someone might get the idea I get paid for this...)

1997 Nov 3: ::gdbm::list now gives qualified names.

1997 Nov 12: fixed free-too-soon bug in db names

1999 Feb 14: obsoleted ::gdbm::list. (Shows how good my V-days are, huh?)

1999 May 20: added NetBSD/i386 binaries.