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BerkeleyDB 4.6.19 is a buggy release, the DB_HASH access method databases can lockup the process.  This is why several of the bleeding edge distro buildbots are timing out while running test_bsddb3.  I've created a simple C test case and made sleepycat^Woracle aware of the problem.


I have a change in my sandbox to explicitly avoid linking with 4.6.19 but it seems like committing it would just pollute setup.py with vague notions of what versions of a specific library are bad.  I'd prefer to just disallow use of libdb
4.6 completely in setup.py until oracle fixes this and we're sure no OS release ships with 4.6.19.

thoughts?

-gps

 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.berkeley-db/browse_thread/thread/abf12452613ca7ec