[Python-Dev] bsddb185 module changes checked in

[Jack Jansen]

On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 22:50 Europe/Amsterdam, Skip Montanaro 
wrote:

>
> The various bits necessary to implement the "build bsddb185 when
> appropriate" have been checked in.  I'm pretty sure I don't have the 
> best
> possible test for the existence of a db library, but it will have to 
> do for
> now.  I suspect others can clean it up later during the beta cycle.  
> The
> current detection code in setup.py should work for Nick on OSF/1 and 
> for
> platforms which don't require a separate db library.
>
> I'd appreciate some extra pounding on this code.

On SGI Irix 6.5 (MIPSpro Compilers: Version 7.2.1) it tries to build it,
and fails. It complains about "u_int" and such not being defined. 
There's
magic at the top of /usr/include/db.h for defining various types 
optionally,
and that's as far as my understanding went.
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