>>>>> "SM" == Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:
SM> The bsddb build problem is essentially that some (many? most?
SM> all?) Linux distributions ship with multiple versions of the
SM> Berkeley DB library now. To make matters worse, they separate
SM> the shared libraries (in base rpms) from the include files (in
SM> -devel rpms). On my Mandrake system that gives you six
SM> possible rpms to install: dbX and dbX-devel, for X in {1,2,3}.
SM> Based on the way distutils checks for libraries and include
SM> files (which I believe is mostly my fault), if you have only
SM> one of any given pair of such rpms, like Barry, you might wind
SM> up compiling with one version of the library and trying to
SM> link with a different version.
It's worse than that. On my MD8.2 system, I've got at least 4
versions of Berkeley installed:
db1-1.85-7mdk + db1-devel-1.85-7mdk
db2-2.4.14-5mdk + db2-devel-2.4.14-5mdk
libdb3.3-3.3.11-7mdk + libdb3.3-devel-3.3.11-7mdk
Those are all installed with a fairly beefy package selection, but
nonetheless stock packages. Then I've got Berkeley DB 3.3.11
installed from source sitting in its default installation spot of
/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.3 and 4.0.14 sitting in
/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.0 ... sigh!
I wouldn't argue if you said it was a mess. ;) So what do we do?
I still think that pybsddb is a worthy candidate for inclusion in the
standard library and it should link against 3.3.11 out of the box. I
believe the cvs snapshot of pybsddb links against 4.0.14 as well.
Then there's this bug
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=408271&group_id=5470&atid=105470
Maybe we should lock bsddbmodule down to Berkeley 1.85 and then pull
pybsddb (which exports as module bsddb3) for Berkeley 3.3.11. If
there's a clamor for it, I suppose we could fake a bsddb2 and bsddb4
for those major versions of Berkeley.
-Barry
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