Kristofer Wempa added the comment:
Some more information:
The libndbm.so is not a library but some sort of ld script. It has the
following content:
/* GNU ld script
Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
the static library, so try that secondarily. */
GROUP ( /usr/lib
New submission from Kristofer Wempa:
I recently built a new version of our Linux tools using Python 2.7.5 on our
SLES11SP2 server. Afterwards, I noticed that the dbm module was not built
successfully. The Python build did not fail and the failed module build
summary at the end of the build