GUB on the python-db problem

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Hi John,

It appears that the fix we made in your branch for DB is correct.
Have a look at target/tools/src/python-2.4.5/setup.py:527

        db_setup_debug = False   # verbose debug prints from this script?

and below...

Setup.py looks for /usr/include/*db*3,4*/db.h, which is entirely broken:
it should ask GCC if it can find db.h (and/or look at the include
flags); we are cross compiling and it entirely ignores that option.

This holds for all of the extension modules that are checked here.  It
would be nice if we could add %(system_prefix)s for where it looks for
all extensions; on the other hand: trusting GUB's dependencies and
patching Setup.dist is OK too.

Also, did you see Joe's mail about anydbm?  I misread his mail earlier,
of course he is using /usr/bin/python [that's needed for bootstrapping]
so we probably want what he suggests: in gub/2/db.py only have

     import anydbm as db

Greetings,
Jan

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