summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--README15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index c35c77e..acbb30f 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -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