[Python-Dev] Still looking for volunteer to run Windows buildbot

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 06:48:13PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Trent]
> > :)
> > Did you apply the Berkeley DB patches to your db-4.2.52 sources?
> 
> Ah, _which_ patches?  As with my buildbot Wiki page, I write down
> everything I do if there's a good chance I may need to do it again. 
> So, e.g., these are my words in PCbuild\readme.txt:
> 
>     As of 11-Apr-2004, you also need to download and manually apply two
>     patches before proceeding (and the sleepycat download page tells you
>     about this).  Cygwin patch worked for me.  cd to dist\db-4.2.52 and
>     use "patch -p0 < patchfile" once for each downloaded patchfile.
> 
> It's possible that there are more patches needed since then, but if so
> I wouldn't know about that (last time I built the externals in the
> _bsddb part was indeed 11-Apr-2004).

FWIW, thats an old BerkeleyDB (yes it'll still work).  Python 2.5
should ship built with BerkeleyDB 4.4.20 so thats what buildbot should
use if it builds the module.