Disable linking against BerkeleyDB 4.6 by default as it has proven to
be a buggy release on many platforms.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a1713e8..99ad7e3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -608,7 +608,10 @@
# a release. Most open source OSes come with one or more
# versions of BerkeleyDB already installed.
- max_db_ver = (4, 6)
+ max_db_ver = (4, 5)
+ # NOTE: while the _bsddb.c code links against BerkeleyDB 4.6.x
+ # we leave that version disabled by default as it has proven to be
+ # quite a buggy library release on many platforms.
min_db_ver = (3, 3)
db_setup_debug = False # verbose debug prints from this script?
@@ -625,7 +628,7 @@
'/sw/include/db3',
]
# 4.x minor number specific paths
- for x in (0,1,2,3,4,5,6):
+ for x in range(max_db_ver[1]+1):
db_inc_paths.append('/usr/include/db4%d' % x)
db_inc_paths.append('/usr/include/db4.%d' % x)
db_inc_paths.append('/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.%d/include' % x)
@@ -648,7 +651,7 @@
for dn in inc_dirs:
std_variants.append(os.path.join(dn, 'db3'))
std_variants.append(os.path.join(dn, 'db4'))
- for x in (0,1,2,3,4,5,6):
+ for x in range(max_db_ver[1]+1):
std_variants.append(os.path.join(dn, "db4%d"%x))
std_variants.append(os.path.join(dn, "db4.%d"%x))
for x in (2,3):