Mark Summerfield added the comment: On 2008-03-03, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > > Rereading your report, I cannot quite understand what issue specifically > you are reporting. What error message do you find confusing, and what do > you think should it say instead?
What I find confusing is: Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: <modules> To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name. I find it confusing because AFAIK if a module can't be built it usually means that you should change the Modules/Setup file and not setup.py itself. (My impression is that the message is aimed at Python developers rather than Python users.) If Modules/Setup is still the correct file for users to edit perhaps the message should be something like: Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: <modules> If you want these modules and they are on your system, try editing Modules/Setup to be able to find them. > In any case, it is deliberate that db 4.6 is not supported - that > release doesn't really work. OK. (But that is a pity since a lot of people use Fedora 8.) __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2219> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
