python 2.0 compile fails on mandrake 8

[lkcl]

BPO	419462
Nosy	@akuchling

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[lkcl]

bddbmodule fails to compile on mandrake 8.

if bdb is not a mandatory module, autoconf should be
used to
detect that bdb is or is not installed. [it's looking
for
R_NEXT etc. which don't exist]

[lkcl]

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update: there is an option in the Modules setup which can be
used to explicity disable bddb. however, this, i feel,
should be totally unnecessary.

why exactly, is autoconf used, when it cannot be told -
correctly -
not to use bddb? i attempted a compile with --without-bddb
(or
whatever it was), and it still failed. because there just
_happens_
to be a db.h file _somewhere_ on the system, the configure
test "assumes" that there is a valid bddb somewhere, which
there isn't.

[jhylton]

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I wonder if the builtin bsddb module should be deprecated.
The fact
that it gets built causes a fair bit of trouble for users of
bsddb3,
which I assume is the preferred interface.

[akuchling]

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Autoconf no longer mucks around with BSDDB at all; it was
ripped out for Python 2.1, so this bug can be closed, to
be replaced by a multitude of setup.py bugs.