DBM files portable?

[Hal Fulton]

Question: I thought that files created by the dbm library
were pretty portable?

My app created a .db file (Ruby 1.8.2, Red Hat FC1) and I
gave it to a couple of people.

Tried it on OSX and it didn't seem to work. Not a gigantic
surprise perhaps.

Tried it on Gentoo also and it still didn't seem to work. :/
This surprised me a little more.

Is this sensitive to OS versions, Ruby versions, or what?


Thanks,
Hal

 

[Florian Frank]

Is this sensitive to OS versions, Ruby versions, or what?

Perhaps architecture? I am not sure, but it could be an endianess
problem...

 

[Florian Frank]

Is this sensitive to OS versions, Ruby versions, or what?

On second reading, perhaps dbm versions differ. You could
$ file data.db
and look on the result and compare it to
$ ldd $PATH/dbm.so

file seems to show endianess, too.