Here is how to build GNU gdbm for MPE/iX
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Create the IX account, if it does not exist yet...

 :hello manager.sys

 :newacct ix,mgr ;pass=dontknow

 :altacct ix ;cap=+ph
 :altuser mgr.ix ;cap=+ph

 :altgroup pub.ix ;access=(r,x:any;w,a,l,s:AL)


Create symbolic link for HFS name to the "home" of gdbm/iX...

 :hello manager.sys

 :newlink /usr/local/gdbm , /IX/GDBM


Create user and MPE group to provide gdbm/iX "home" setup...

 :hello mgr.ix

 :newgroup gdbm.ix ;access=(r,w,a,l,x,s:GL)

 :newuser gdbm.ix ;pass=dontknow

 :altuser gdbm.ix ;home=gdbm ;cap=+ph,gl


Logon as gdbm.iX user to unpack files and perform build...

 :hello gdbm.ix

 (optionally copy some helpful .exrc and .profile files here)

 :/bin/sh -L


First unpack the original GNU gdbm 1.7.3 distribution...

 shell/iX> gunzip -c /tmp/gdbm-1.7.3.tar.gz | tar xvof -


And then add the MPE specific files (into separate mpe subdir)...

 shell/iX> tar xvzopf /tmp/gd-mpe.tar.Z

 shell/iX> cat ReadMe


Now have the setup script replace/adjust the MPE specific files...

 shell/iX> sh mpe/setup

And "dot" the dotme script to setup some shell env variables...

 shell/iX> . mpe/dotme


Finally perform the configure, make and make install steps...

 shell/iX> cd gdbm-1.7.3

 (the configure script is already mpe-ized with autoconf/iX)

 shell/iX> ./configure $conf

 shell/iX> make

 (optionally create some test programs with "make progs")

 shell/iX> make install
 shell/iX> make install-compat

 shell/iX> make distclean

 shell/iX> cd ..


Optionally create a subdirectory with HTML docs (needs texi2html)...

 shell/iX> umask 0022   
 shell/iX> mkdir public_html
 shell/iX> cd public_html

 shell/iX> texi2html -verbose ../gdbm-1.7.3/gdbm.texinfo

 shell/iX> cd ..


That's all (you'd also have this state by unpacking gd-all.tar.Z)

 shell/iX> exit

 :bye