building python 3 -- _dbm necessary bits

[James Mills]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Mark Olbert
<ChairmanMAO at newsgroups.nospam> wrote:
> I'm getting an error message about make not being able to find the necessary bits to build modules related to _dbm. Yet I have
> libgdbm installed installed on my system. Suggestions on how to fix this?

You need the development C headers for
gdbm. If you're using a Debian-based system
try something like:

$ apt-get install gdbm-dev

cheers
James