This introduces stricter library/header file checking for the Berkeley DB
library. Since multiple versions can be installed simultaneously, it's
crucial that you only select libraries and header files which are compatible
with each other. Version checking is done from highest version to lowest.
Building using version 1 of Berkeley DB is disabled by default because of
the hash file bugs people keep rediscovering. It can be enabled by
uncommenting a few lines in setup.py. Closes patch 553108.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4a949f4..758a347 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -276,6 +276,11 @@
- The tools used to build the documentation now work under Cygwin as
well as Unix.
+- The bsddb and dbm module builds have been changed to try and avoid version
+ skew problems and disable linkage with Berkeley DB 1.85 unless the
+ installer knows what s/he's doing. See the section on building these
+ modules in the README file for details.
+
C API
- Added new macro PySequence_ITEM(o, i) that directly calls