> Sound pretty much like it could be. Can you take vanilla python 2.5.2
> on your box, build from source and then check if the gdbm extension
> compiles [I think it won't]. Can you then build gdbm from source and
> use that version to build python? If that works it is likely to be a
> use flag problem somehow in arch and your specific setup.

Hi Michael,

Applying the following patch to "python-2.5.2/src/setup.py" solves
the
problem of "dbm.so" compilation. However, running the sage still
gives
the same errors which should thus stem from somewhere else.

--- Python-2.4.4/setup.py.orig  2007-01-14 12:50:46.000000000 -0600
+++ Python-2.4.4/setup.py       2007-01-14 12:54:02.000000000 -0600
@@ -685,12 +685,12 @@
                 if self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs,
'ndbm'):
                     ndbm_libs = ['ndbm']
                 else:
-                    ndbm_libs = []
+                    ndbm_libs = ['gdbm', 'gdbm_compat']
                 exts.append( Extension('dbm', ['dbmmodule.c'],

define_macros=[('HAVE_NDBM_H',None)],
                                        libraries = ndbm_libs ) )
             elif (self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'gdbm')
-                  and find_file("gdbm/ndbm.h", inc_dirs, []) is not
None):
+                  and find_file("ndbm.h", inc_dirs, []) is not
None):
                 exts.append( Extension('dbm', ['dbmmodule.c'],

define_macros=[('HAVE_GDBM_NDBM_H',None)],
                                        libraries = ['gdbm'] ) )
Cheers,
Osman
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