Mark Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:

On 2008-03-20, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> Sean Reifschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
>
> Don't modify Modules/Setup*, do as the message says and modify setup.py.
>  Search for "4, 5", and change that to "4, 6", then run configure and
> make and it will build without this message.

I did as you said and it worked perfectly. Thanks!

> I have done this against the py3k trunk and it built properly and did
> not display this message, so I think the current message is correct.

Yes you're right---it was just a bit surprising because in the past it
has always been Modules/Setup that needed fixing.

> As far as the bsddb 4.6 being broken, I spoke to Gregory and Martin and
> the story is that it is broken on some platforms, and isn't enabled by
> default because doing so breaks our buildbots on those platforms.
>
> I wouldn't expect the problem from F8 version, if nothing else because
> it's probably not a stock version, it's likely patched to the issues
> that Gregory has seen, if they impact F8.

So presumably the Fedora maintainers will do the setup.py fix you
suggested.

Thanks!

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