On Apr 25, 10:21 pm, ugus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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
Hi Osman,
let me look at the patch in some more details, but I am slightly
worried that it isn't in upstream python yet, hence I will not apply
it unless it proves to not cause issues on the other platforms we
support.
Cheers,
Michael
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