[issue2219] Py30a3: Possibly confusing message when module detection fails

[Mark Summerfield]

New submission from Mark Summerfield:

On Fedora 8 I get this message:
Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:
_bsddb
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the
module's name.

On Kubuntu 6.06 LTS I get the same message, but about different modules:
_hashlib _ssl bz2

In previous versions when headers or libraries couldn't be found I
thought the correct file to change was Modules/Setup or
Modules/Setup.local. If this is still the case then the above error
message should perhaps be changed?

BTW For Fedora 8, bsddb won't work since according to Modules/Setup the
most recent version supported is 4.0 while Fedora 8 has 4.4.

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components: Build
messages: 63202
nosy: mark
severity: normal
status: open
title: Py30a3: Possibly confusing message when module detection fails
versions: Python 3.0

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