Link the dbm module against gdbm if it exists and if no earlier

library match was found.  This fixes dbm on RedHat 9 and doesn't
appear (so far <wink>) to have any regressions on other *nixes.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3210a690df..ae2ef0a06e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -406,6 +406,9 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
             elif self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'db1'):
                 exts.append( Extension('dbm', ['dbmmodule.c'],
                                        libraries = ['db1'] ) )
+            elif self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'gdbm'):
+                exts.append( Extension('dbm', ['dbmmodule.c'],
+                                       libraries = ['gdbm'] ) )
             else:
                 exts.append( Extension('dbm', ['dbmmodule.c']) )