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+- Issue #4587: Add configure option --with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:... to specify
+  the order that backends for the dbm extension are checked. 
+
 - Link the shared python library with $(MODLIBS).
 
 - Issue #5134: Silence compiler warnings when compiling sqlite with VC++.