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@@ -290,16 +290,6 @@ 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.)
-
XXX I think this next bit is out of date:
64-bit platforms: The modules audioop, imageop and rgbimg don't work.
@@ -752,9 +742,7 @@ Beginning with Python version 2.3, the PyBsddb package
exposing a set of package-level functions which provide
backwards-compatible behavior. Only versions 3.3 through 4.4 of
Sleepycat's libraries provide the necessary API, so older versions
-aren't supported through this interface. The old bsddb module has
-been retained as bsddb185, though it is not built by default. Users
-wishing to use it will have to tweak Modules/Setup to build it. The
+aren't supported through this interface. The
dbm module will still be built against the Sleepycat libraries if
other preferred alternatives (ndbm, gdbm) are not found.