[issue15044] _dbm not building on Fedora 17

Nick Coghlan added the comment: I think we can skip the belated NEWS entry for something that happened a couple of years ago... -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue15044] _dbm not building on Fedora 17

Ross Lagerwall added the comment: Yeah, after I submitted the patch, I was unsure if that was a good idea or if it should try and use gdbm in native mode if possible. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue15044] _dbm not building on Fedora 17

Nick Coghlan added the comment: I committed the fix to at least get things building again, but this should probably get a NEWS entry (since builds that would have previously used gdbm directly will now use it in ndbm compatibility mode instead) --

[issue15044] _dbm not building on Fedora 17

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 4d62f788aa19 by Nick Coghlan in branch '2.7': Issue #15044: Handle Fedora 17's approach to ndbm compatibility (backport from 3.x) http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4d62f788aa19 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue15044] _dbm not building on Fedora 17

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e2be1f43beed by Nick Coghlan in branch '3.2': Issue #15044: Handle Fedora 17's approach to ndbm compatibility http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e2be1f43beed New changeset 1f6c23ed8218 by Nick Coghlan in branch 'default': Merge from 3.2. (Issue #1504

[issue15044] _dbm not building on Fedora 17

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Patch works for me, and looks pretty safe for other platforms. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

[issue15044] _dbm not building on Fedora 17

Ross Lagerwall added the comment: Attached is a patch which fixes the issue on Fedora 17. If this doesn't break other OSes I'll commit it for 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3. -- keywords: +patch versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file25943/gdbm.patch ___

[issue15044] _dbm not building on Fedora 17

Ross Lagerwall added the comment: The gdbm provided with Fedora 17 provides /usr/include/ndbm.h. This makes setup.py think that it should try link with -lndbm when it actually requires -lgdbm_compat. A workaround is to specify --with-dbmliborder=gdbm to force gdbm to be used. I'll try and ma

[issue15044] _dbm not building on Fedora 17

New submission from Nick Coghlan : After upgrading from Fedora 16 -> 17, my previously working trunk build is getting the following error: Building '_dbm' extension gcc -pthread -fPIC -Wno-unused-result -g -O0 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DHAVE_NDBM_H -IInclude -I. -I./Include -I/usr/local/inclu