[Python-Dev] Distutils confuses Berkeley DB and dbm?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Would someone on Linux please try the following:
> 
>     import dbm
>     f = dbm.open("foo", "c")
>     f["1"] = "1"
>     f.close
> 
> then ask the file command what kind of file it is.  On my system it tells me
> the file is a Berkeley DB 1.85 hash file.  I figure that distutils is
> getting ahold of the libdb dbm-compatibility include files and libraries and
> using them.  On my system, the only ndbm.h is in /usr/include/db1.  Here's
> how the dbm module builds on my system:
> 
>     building 'dbm' extension
>     gcc -DNDEBUG -O3 -fPIC
>     -I. -I/home/skip/src/python/head/dist/src/./Include -I/usr/local/include \
>     -IInclude/ -c /home/skip/src/python/head/dist/src/Modules/dbmmodule.c -o \
>     build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/dbmmodule.o 
>     gcc -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/dbmmodule.o -L/usr/local/lib -ldb1 \
>     -o build/lib.linux-i686-2.3/dbm.so 
> 
> I know there is a bug report open about something related to building
> Berkeley DB-based modules, but I'm offline at the moment so I can't check
> it.  Barry, were you going to look at this?  How about a little
> collaboration?  I think I'm mostly responsible for what distutils does as
> far as building bsddb.

Perhaps you ought to have a look at mx.BeeBase ? It's portable
and fast, has locks and transactions. (And it builds on all
platforms where egenix-mx-base builds.)

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH
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