I get this when emerging python on a system I'm bringing up to date after 3 years of non-use:
*** WARNING: renaming "dbm" since importing it failed: /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so.3: undefined symbol: __guard The compile eventually fails with: Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: _bsddb _tkinter bsddb185 sunaudiodev To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name. Failed to build these modules: dbm running build_scripts creating build/scripts-2.6 copying and adjusting /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.7-r2/work/Python-2.6.7/Tools/scripts/pydoc -> build/scripts-2.6 copying and adjusting /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.7-r2/work/Python-2.6.7/Tools/scripts/idle -> build/scripts-2.6 copying and adjusting /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.7-r2/work/Python-2.6.7/Tools/scripts/2to3 -> build/scripts-2.6 copying and adjusting /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.7-r2/work/Python-2.6.7/Lib/smtpd.py -> build/scripts-2.6 changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/pydoc from 644 to 755 changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/idle from 644 to 755 changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/2to3 from 644 to 755 changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/smtpd.py from 644 to 755 make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1 This is python-2.6 but I get the same from 2.7 and 3.1. I was able to emerge python-2.6 earlier in the updating process so I'm not sure why it's failing now. I'm halfway through an emerge -e world to see if that helps. The system is up-to-date now and working fine although I still need to update the kernel, gcc won't compile above 4.3.4, and udev gets crazy above 141. I'm on this profile: hardened/linux/x86 Any ideas? - Grant
