Re: building python 3 -- _dbm necessary bits

2010-04-30 Thread Mark Olbert
James, Thanks for the advice. I looked at the contents of a gdbm-devel package on the web, and compared it, file by file, to my system. I noticed that the online package had three files: /usr/include/gdbm/dbm.h /usr/include/gdbm/gdbm.h /usr/include/gdbm/ndbm.h which on my system are

Re: building python 3 -- _dbm necessary bits

2010-04-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:14:21 -0700, Mark Olbert a écrit : Do you know how I can report this issue to the developers so that the Python build script can be modified to look for the gdbm files in /usr/include? You can post an issue at http://bugs.python.org Regards Antoine. --

Re: building python 3 -- _dbm necessary bits

2010-04-29 Thread Mark Olbert
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:51:26 +1000, James Mills prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Mark Olbert chairman...@newsgroups.nospam wrote: I'm getting an error message about make not being able to find the necessary bits to build modules related to _dbm. Yet I have

Re: building python 3 -- _dbm necessary bits

2010-04-29 Thread James Mills
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Mark Olbert chairman...@newsgroups.nospam wrote: Okay. But I compiled installed gdbm from source obtained from the gnu archive, so I presume the necessary files would be included (this is on a linux system). Perhaps check where gdbm has installed it's

building python 3 -- _dbm necessary bits

2010-04-28 Thread Mark Olbert
I'm getting an error message about make not being able to find the necessary bits to build modules related to _dbm. Yet I have libgdbm installed installed on my system. Suggestions on how to fix this? - Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: building python 3 -- _dbm necessary bits

2010-04-28 Thread James Mills
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Mark Olbert chairman...@newsgroups.nospam wrote: I'm getting an error message about make not being able to find the necessary bits to build modules related to _dbm. Yet I have libgdbm installed installed on my system. Suggestions on how to fix this? You need