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authorSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2003-05-02 15:27:59 (GMT)
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@@ -255,6 +255,21 @@ on these platforms without the special directions mentioned here,
submit a documentation bug report to SourceForge (see Bug Reports
above) so we can remove them!)
+Unix platforms: If your vendor still ships (and you still use) Berkeley DB
+ 1.85 you will need to edit Modules/Setup to build the bsddb185
+ module and add a line to sitecustomize.py which makes it the
+ default. In Modules/Setup a line like
+
+ bsddb185 bsddbmodule.c
+
+ should work. (You may need to add -I, -L or -l flags to direct the
+ compiler and linker to your include files and libraries.) You can
+ then force it to be the version people import by adding
+
+ import bsddb185 as bsddb
+
+ in sitecustomize.py.
+
64-bit platforms: The modules audioop, imageop and rgbimg don't work.
The setup.py script disables them on 64-bit installations.
Don't try to enable them in the Modules/Setup file. They