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add note about building with bsddb185 and making it appear as bsddb.
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Skip Montanaro committed May 2, 2003
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Expand Up @@ -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
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