[Python-Dev] BerkeleyDB 4.6.19 is buggy and causes test_bsddb3 to hang (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Sep 10 16:21:39 CEST 2007

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?

That sounds like the right solution to me. We should review it when/if a patch is available. "No OS release ships" is a difficult-to-test-for condition, given things like Gentoo and Debian unstable that simultaneously ship in dozens of versions (i.e. with "releases" every two hours or more often). After a bug fix is available, and some time has passed, I'd rather reallow 4.6.x, and put something into README about this bug.

Thanks for investigating it.

Regards, Martin

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