Python on Mac OS X doesn't have gdbm

[Fortepianissimo]

fortepianissimo at yahoo.com.tw (Fortepianissimo) wrote in message news:<ef08387c.0403112103.33130dca at posting.google.com>...
> First off I know I can install the latest python from Fink quite
> easily and it'll give me everything needed. But I'm trying to
> distribute my python app to end users who don't really care (or know)
> anything about Fink.
> 
> The default Python on Mac OS X is 2.3 but doesn't come with gdbm. Did
> anyone try to get the source of gdbm and build it, and somehow built
> the gdbm module for Python on Mac OS X? If so could you share a few
> hints? It'll save me lots of time trying.
> 
> Thanks!

Just a follow-up on what I did to sort of solve this problem. I simply
copied gdbm.so and the necessary libgdbm* files from Fink to another
directory, and used install_name_tool to change the dynamic library
path inside gdbm.so. And it worked...