[Spambayes] Spambayes can't find bsddb

[Rick Gregory]

Ah.....

You nailed the OS X issue. Thanks.

On my Linux box I switched to pickle for now, but I'll rebuild Python - 
I think I did install the Berkeley db after building Python.

Thanks!

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>    Rick> When I run sb_imapfilter on my Powerbook (OS X 10.3.3, Python 2.3)
>    Rick> I get:
>
>    Rick>    ImportError: No module named _bsddb
>    Rick>    Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'MessageInfoDB' object has no
>    Rick>    attribute 'db'" in <bound method MessageInfoDB.__del__ of
>    Rick>    <spambayes.message.MessageInfoDB object at 0x4e7d30>> ignored
>
>On your Mac OSX box does your Python installation have a _bsddb.so file in
>the lib-dynload directory?  If not, it's probably because whatever Berkeley
>DB is installed is not recent enough so the Python build process refused to
>build it.  The version which comes in /usr/lib is the old 1.85 version.  On
>my system I get it from the Fink project.  If you do have a
>lib-dynload/_bsddb.so file, was does otool tell you about its library
>dependencies?
>
>    % otool -L /Users/skip/local/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_bsddb.so 
>    /Users/skip/local/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_bsddb.so:
>            /sw/lib/libdb-3.3.dylib (compatibility version 3.3.0, current version 3.3.11)
>            /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 63.0.0)
>
>
>    Rick>     You do not have a dbm module available to use.  You need to
>    Rick>     either use a pickle (see the FAQ), use Python 2.3 (or above),
>    Rick>     or install a dbm module such as bsddb (see
>    Rick>     http://sf.net/projects/pybsddb).
>
>    Rick> Now, the sb FAQ asserts I should have all of this with Python 2.3,
>    Rick> so I assume it's a pathing error. The problem is that I don't know
>    Rick> that much about Python environment variables. What should I
>    Rick> verify/set to ensure that bsddb is found?
>
>    Rick> INcidentally, I manually installed Berkely db 4.2 and pysbddb on
>    Rick> my linux box, so I know it's there.
>
>Did you maybe install it after installing Python?  If so, rebuild/reinstall
>Python.  The distutils stuff should notice the new Berkeley DB (probably
>installed in /usr/local/BerkeleyDB4.2).
>
>Skip
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