[Python-Dev] Re: making dbmmodule still broken

[Guido van Rossum]

>     SM> I think it would probably be a good idea to alert the person
>     SM> running make what library the module will be linked with.
>     SM> Anyone else agree?
> 
> +1.  The less guessing the builder has to do the better!

Just don't start asking questions and reading answers from stdin.  The
Make process is often run unattended.  A new option to allow asking
questions is OK.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)