nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/gdbm/default.nix
2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00

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{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "gdbm-1.11";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/gdbm/${name}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "1hz3jgh3pd4qzp6jy0l8pd8x01g9abw7csnrlnj1a2sxy122z4cd";
};
doCheck = true;
meta = {
description = "GNU dbm key/value database library";
longDescription =
'' GNU dbm (or GDBM, for short) is a library of database functions that
use extensible hashing and work similar to the standard UNIX dbm.
These routines are provided to a programmer needing to create and
manipulate a hashed database.
The basic use of GDBM is to store key/data pairs in a data file.
Each key must be unique and each key is paired with only one data
item.
The library provides primitives for storing key/data pairs,
searching and retrieving the data by its key and deleting a key
along with its data. It also support sequential iteration over all
key/data pairs in a database.
For compatibility with programs using old UNIX dbm function, the
package also provides traditional dbm and ndbm interfaces.
'';
homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/;
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo ];
};
}