[Pythonmac-SIG] traceback looking for _bsddb

[Bob Ippolito]

On Aug 30, 2004, at 10:39 AM, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On 30-aug-04, at 16:29, Lincoln Rutledge wrote:
>
>> Hi Python Mac'ers,
>> I am running 10.3.5 with Jack Jansen's goodies installed, Tcl/Tk and
>> IDLE are working.  I am using Phil Pearson's cool cli blog program
>> bzero, and it is looking for _bsddb.
>
> You need to install the bsddb package. But: that package isn't 
> currently featured in Package Manager, and I think I've heard here 
> that it is non-trivial to build.

I'm pretty sure it's trivial to build.

> So, questions for you all:
> - Is bsddb interesting enough to add to the Package Manager?

Yes

> - Can someone send me a recipe for how to build it?

I think it's trivial..  I don't remember any problems.  I have 
_bsddb.so from 4.1.6 linked with BerkeleyDB 4.1.25 in my repository:
http://undefined.org/python/pimp/

-bob