[Python-Dev] Distutils confuses Berkeley DB and dbm?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     mal> Perhaps you ought to have a look at mx.BeeBase ? It's portable and
>     mal> fast, has locks and transactions. (And it builds on all platforms
>     mal> where egenix-mx-base builds.)
> 
> Perhaps, but that doesn't solve existing problems with building bsddb and
> the various dbm-compatibility modes available.

True, just thought I'd drop in an idea how to get around all
the dbm problems.

> The bsddb build problem is essentially that some (many? most? all?) Linux
> distributions ship with multiple versions of the Berkeley DB library now.
> To make matters worse, they separate the shared libraries (in base rpms)
> from the include files (in -devel rpms).  On my Mandrake system that gives
> you six possible rpms to install: dbX and dbX-devel, for X in {1,2,3}.
> Based on the way distutils checks for libraries and include files (which I
> believe is mostly my fault), if you have only one of any given pair of such
> rpms, like Barry, you might wind up compiling with one version of the
> library and trying to link with a different version.
> 
> I thought you were nominally against the idea of incorporating bits of mx
> into the core?

Yep; but that doesn't keep you from using them :-)

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